GIFT 
BERTRAM SMITH 

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^Table of <£ontent0. 



PAGE 

9Efje donstttutfon . . ...... 5 

STitle I. — Of the Orders in the Ministry, and of the 

Doctrine and Worship of the Church . . 17 

JEitle II. — Of Discipline ....... 90 

3CttIe III. — Of the Organized Bodies and Officers of 

the Church ........ 122 

JEitle IV. — Miscellaneous Provisions ..... 143 

Enoei to tfje Ht'gest 150 



CONSTITUTION. 



dlottstituttott, 

ADOPTED IN GENERAL CONVENTION, 

IN PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER, 1789. 



ARTICLE 1. 

There shall be a General Convention of the Con " 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of 
America on the first Wednesday in October, in every 
third year, from the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and forty-one; and in such place as 
shall be determined by the Convention ; and in case 
there shall be an epidemic disease, or any other good Change of 
cause to render it necessary to alter the place fixed 
on for any such meeting of the Convention, the Pre- 
siding Bishop shall have it in his power to appoint 
another convenient place (as near as may be to the 
place so fixed on) for the holding of such Conven- 
tion : and special meetings may be called at other Special Meet- 
times, in the manner hereafter to be provided for; lnss ' 
and this Church, in a majority of the Dioceses which 
shall have adopted this Constitution, shall be repre- 
sented, before they shall proceed to business ; except 
that the representation from two Dioceses shall be Quorum, 
sufficient to adjourn ; and in all business of the Con- 
vention freedom of debate shall be allowed. Debate. 

ARTICLE 2. 

The Church in each Diocese shall be entitled to a House of Dep- 
representation of both the Clergy and the Laity. uties- 
Such representation shall consist of not more than 



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Clergymen 
and Laymen. 



Vote by Dio- 
ceses and 
Orders. 



Dioceses un- 
represented 
are bound. 



four Clergymen and four Laymen, communicants in 
this Church, residents in the Diocese, and chosen in 
the manner prescribed by the Convention thereof ; 
and in all questions when required by the Clerical or 
Lay representation from any Diocese, each Order 
shall have one vote ; and the majority of suffrages by 
Dioceses shall be conclusive in each Order, provided 
such majority comprehend a majority of the Dioceses 
represented in that Order. The concurrence of both 
Orders shall be necessary to constitute a vote of the 
House of Deputies. If the Convention of any Dio- 
cese should neglect or decline to appoint Clerical 
Deputies, or if they should neglect or decline to ap- 
point Lay Deputies, or if any of those of either Order 
appointed should neglect to attend, or be prevented 
by sickness or any other accident, such Diocese shall 
nevertheless be considered as duly represented by 
such Deputy or Deputies as may attend, whether 
Lay or Clerical. And if, through the neglect of the 
Convention of any of the Churches which shall have 
adopted or may hereafter adopt this Constitution, no 
Deputies, either Lay or Clerical, should attend at 
any General Convention, the Church in such Diocese 
shall nevertheless be bound by the acts of such Con- 
vention. 



House of 
Bishops. 



Negative up- 
on the Lower 
House. 
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ARTICLE 3. 

The Bishops of this Church, when there shall be 
three or more, shall, whenever General Conventions 
are held, form a separate House, with a right to 
originate and propose acts for the concurrence of 
the House of Deputies composed of Clergy and 
Laity ; and when any proposed act shall have passed 
the House of Deputies, the same shall be transmitted 
to the House of Bishops, who shall have a negative 



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thereupon ; and all acts of the Convention shall be 
authenticated by both Houses. And in all cases the 
House of Bishops shall signify to the House of 
Deputies their approbation or disapprobation (the 
latter with their reasons in writing) within three 
days after the proposed act shall have been reported 
to them for concurrence; and in failure thereof, it 
shall have the operation of a law. But until there 
shall be three or more Bishops, as aforesaid, any 
Bishop attending a General Convention shall be a 
member ex officio, and shall vote with the Clerical 
Deputies of the Diocese to which he belongs ; and a 
Bishop shall then preside. 

ARTICLE 4. 

The Bishop or Bishops in every Diocese shall be Jurisdiction of 
chosen agreeably to such rules as shall be fixed by Blshops " 
the Convention of that Diocese; and every Bishop 
of this Church shall confine the exercise of his Epis- 
copal Office to his proper Diocese, unless requested 
to ordain, or confirm, or perform any other act of 
the Episcopal Office in another Diocese by the 
Ecclesiastical Authority thereof. 

ARTICLE 5. 

A Protestant Episcopal Church in any of the Admission of 
United States, or any Territory thereof, not now NewDloceses - 
represented, may, at any time hereafter, be admit- 
ted on acceding to this Constitution ; and a new 
Diocese, to be formed from one or more existing 
Dioceses, may be admitted under the following re- 
strictions, viz. : — 

No new Diocese shall be formed or erected with- 
in the limits of any other Diocese, nor shall any 
Diocese be formed by the junction of two or more 



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Consent re- 
quired. 



Limit of Pres- 
byters and 
Parishes. 



Rights of the 
Diocesan and 
the Bishop Co- 
adjutor. 



Constitution 
and Canons of 
New Dioceses. 



Dioceses, or parts of Dioceses, unless with the con- 
sent of the Bishop and Convention of each of the 
Dioceses concerned, as well as of the General Con- 
vention, and such consent shall not be given by the 
General Convention until it has satisfactory assur- 
ance of a suitable provision for the support of the 
Episcopate in the contemplated new Diocese. 

No such new Diocese shall be formed which 
shall contain less than six Parishes, or less than six 
Presbyters who have been for at least one year 
canonically resident within the bounds of such 
new Diocese, regularly settled in a Parish or Con- 
gregation, and qualified to vote for a Bishop. Nor 
shall such new Diocese be formed if thereby any 
existino- Diocese shall be so reduced as to contain 
less than twelve Parishes, or less than twelve Pres- 
byters who have been residing therein and settled 
and qualified as above mentioned : Provided, that 
no city shall form more than one Diocese. 

In case one Diocese shall be divided into two or 
more Dioceses, the Diocesan of the Diocese divided 
may elect the one to which he will be attached, and 
shall thereupon become the Diocesan thereof ; and 
the Bishop Coadjutor if there be one, may elect the 
one to which he will be attached ; and if it be not 
the one elected by the Bishop, he shall be the Dio- 
cesan thereof. ' 

Whenever the division of a Diocese into two or 
more Dioceses shall be ratified by the General Con- 
vention, each of the Dioceses shall be subject to 
the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese so 
divided, except as local circumstances may prevent, 
until the same may be altered in either Diocese by 
the Convention thereof. And whenever a Diocese 
shall be formed out of two or more existing Dio- 



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ceses, the new Diocese shall be subject to the Con- 
stitution and Canons of that one of the said existing 
Dioceses to which the greater number of Clergy- 
men shall have belonged prior to the erection of 
such new Diocese, until the same may be altered by 
the Convention of the new Diocese. 



ARTICLE 6. 

The mode of trying Bishops shall be provided Ecclesiastical 
by the General Convention. The Court appointed and Sentences, 
for that purpose shall be composed of Bishops only. 
In every Diocese, the mode of trying Presbyters and 
Deacons may be instituted by the Convention of the 
Diocese. None but a Bishop shall pronounce sen- 
tence of admonition, suspension, or degradation from 
the Ministry, on any Clergyman, whether Bishop, 
Presbyter, or Deacon. 

ARTICLE 7. 

No person shall be admitted to Holy Orders until Requisites for 

c .ill Ordination. 

he shall have been examined by the Bishop, and by 
two Presbyters, and shall have exhibited such tes- 
timonials and other requisites as the Canons, in 
that case provided, may direct. Nor shall any 
person be ordained until he shall have subscribed 
the following declaration : — ■ 

I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament Declaration, 
to be the Word of God, and to contain all things necessary to sal- 
vation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the Doctrines and 
Worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. 

No person ordained by a foreign Bishop shall be Admission of 

1 J & 1 Foreign Clergy 

permitted to officiate as a Minister of this Church, 
until he shall have complied with the Canon or 
Canons in that case provided, and have also sub- 
scribed the aforesaid Declaration. 



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ARTICLE 8. 



The Book of 

Common 

Prayer. 



Alterations or 
Additions, 
how to be 
made. 



The Lection- 
ary, how it 
may be 
amended. 



A Book of Common Prayer, Administration of the 
Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the 
Church, Articles of Religion, and a Form and Man- 
ner of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, 
Priests, and Deacons, when established by this or a 
future General Convention, shall be used in the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in those Dioceses which 
shall have adopted this Constitution. No alteration 
or addition shall be made in the Book of Common 
Prayer, or other Offices of the Church, or the Articles 
of Religion, unless the same shall be proposed in one 
General Convention, and by a resolve thereof made 
known to the Convention of every Diocese, and 
adopted at the subsequent General Convention. 
Provided, however, That the General Convention 
shall have power, from time to time, to amend the 
Lectionary ; but no act for this purpose shall be 
valid which is not voted for by a majority of the 
whole number of Bishops entitled to seats in the 
House of Bishops, and by a majority of all the Dio- 
ceses entitled to representation in the House of 
Deputies. 



Alterations of 
this Constitu- 
tion. 



ARTICLE 9. 

This Constitution shall be unalterable, unless in 
General Convention, by the Church, in a majority of 
the Dioceses which may have adopted the same ; and 
all alterations shall be first proposed in one General 
Convention, and made known to the several Dio- 
cesan Conventions, before they shall be finally 
agreed to, or ratified, in the ensuing General 
Convention. 



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ARTICLE 10. 



Bishops for foreign countries, on due application o°Bishora for 



therefrom, may be consecrated, with the approbation ^?£| ign Coun 
of the Bishops of this Church, or a majority of them, 
signified to the Presiding Bishop ; he thereupon tak- 
ing order for the same, and they being satisfied that 
the person designated for the office has been duly 
chosen, and properly qualified : the Order of Conse- 
cration to be conformed, as nearly as may be, in the 
judgment of the Bishops, to the one used in this 
Church. Such Bishops, so consecrated, shall not be 
eligible to the Office of Diocesan, or Bishop Coadjutor, 
in any Diocese in the United States, nor be entitled 
to a seat in the House of Bishops, nor exercise any 
Episcopal authority in said States. 

Done in the General Convention of the Bishops, 
Clergy, and Laity of the Church, the 2d day of 
October, 1789. 

Note. — When the Constitution was originally History of 

. • i i Alterations, 

adopted, in August, 1789, the first Article provided 

that the triennial Convention should be held on the 
first Tuesday in August. At the adjourned meeting 
of the Convention, held in October of the same year, 1789. 
it was provided that the second Tuesday in Sep- 
tember, in every third year, should be the time of 
meeting. The time was again changed to the third 
Tuesday in May, by the General Convention of 1804. 1804. 

The first Article was put into its present form at 
the General Convention of 1841. 1841. 

The second Article was put into its present form 
at the General Convention of 1856. 1856. 

The third Article was so altered by the General 
Convention of 1808, as to give the House of Bishops 1808. 



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a full veto upon the proceedings of the other 
House. 

The fourth Article was put into its present form 
1874. at the General Convention of 1874. 

The fifth Article was put into its present form at 
1871. the General Convention of 1871. 

The sixth Article was put into its present form at 
1841. the General Convention of 1841. 

The second sentence of the eighth Article was 
1811. adopted at the General Convention of 1811. 

The words " or the Articles of Religion " were 
added to the eighth Article by the General Conven- 
1829. tion of 1829. 

The third sentence of the eighth Article was 
1877. adopted at the General Convention of 1877. 

The tenth Article was finally agreed to, and rati- 
1844. fied, in the General Convention of 1844. 

1838. The Convention of 1838 adopted the following 

alterations, to wit : — 

Striking out the word " States " wherever it oc- 
curred in the first and second Articles, except where 
it followed the word "United" in the first part of 
the first Article, and inserting in lieu of the word 
"States" the word "Dioceses." Striking out the 
word " States " wherever it occurred in the second, 
third, and fourth Articles, and inserting in lieu there- 
of the word " Dioceses." 

Striking' out the words " or district " in the fourth 
Article. 

Striking out the word " State " in the sixth Article, 
and inserting the word " Diocese." 

Striking out the word " States " in the eighth 
Article, and inserting the word " Dioceses " ; and in 
the eighth Article striking out the words " or State " 
after the words " every Diocese." 



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Striking out the word " States " in the ninth 
Article, and inserting the word " Dioceses." Strik- 
ing out the word " State " in the ninth Article, and 
inserting the word " Diocesan." 

The words " House of Deputies " were substituted 
for the word " Convention " in the fourteenth line of 
the second Article, and in the twelfth line of the 
third Article, at the General Convention of 1886. 1886. 



digest of ttje Canons, 



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CANONS 1 AND 2. 



mik i. 

OF THE OBDERS IN THE MINISTRY, AND OF THE 
DOCTRINE AND WORSHIP OF THIS CHURCH. 



CANON 1. 

Of the Orders of {Ministry in this Church. 

In this Church there shall always be three Orders Three Orders 
in the Ministry, namely: Bishops, Priests, and of Ministry. 

Deacons. 

CANON 2. 

Of Postulants. 

5 i. ri-1 Every person desiring to be admitted a To consult 
sh t t i. it i s\ n • . „ r» , . , with Pastor. 

Candidate tor Holy Orders is, m the first instance, 

to consult his immediate Pastor, or if he have none, 
some Presbyter to whom he is personally known, 
setting before him the grounds of his desire for 
admission to the Ministry, together with such cir- 
cumstances as may bear on his qualifications, or tend 
to affect his course of preparation. 

[2.] If counselled to persevere in his intention, To furnish in- 
such person shall then, with letter of approval and t h e Bishop 
introduction from such Presbyter, which letter shall 
furnish to the Bishop precise and specific informa- 
tion as to his antecedents, training, physical, moral 
and intellectual fitness to be received as a Postulant 

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CANON 2. 



§ ii, iii, iv. 



Of Postulants. 

And notice of f or the Holy Ministry, give notice of such intention 
intention. " ° , . 

to the Bishop 01 the Diocese or Missionary Juris- 
diction to which he belongs. 

[3.] The Bishop may, in a case where it is impos- 
Dispensation sible to obtain such testimony, dispense with the 
provisions of this section, and receive the application 
directly. 

what the ap- § ii. In his written application to the Bishop, the 

plication v , -in 

shall state. applicant shall state : 

(a.) The dates of his birth, baptism, confirmation 
and first communion. 

(b.~) "Whether he has ever before applied for ad- 
mission as a Postulant or Candidate for Holy Orders. 

(c.) Whether he is prepared forthwith to make 
application to be received as a Candidate. 

Bishop shall § iii. Should the Bishop approve of the application 
enter name, ^ e s j ia Q en t er the name of the applicant upon the list 
of Postulants, in a book to be kept for that purpose, 
and shall inform him of the fact and date of such 
entry. 

An applicant § iv. [1.] No Bishop shall accept as a Postulant 
fused^admis-" an y P erson wno nas been refused admission as a 
sion not to be Postulant or Candidate for Holy Orders, in any other 
without a cer- Diocese r Missionary Jurisdiction than^his own, or, 
tiflcate. who having been admitted, has afterwards ceased to 

be a Candidate, until such person shall have produced 
a certificate from the Ecclesiastical Authority of the 
Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction in which he has 
been refused admission, or has been a Postulant or 
Candidate, declaring the cause of such refusal or 
cessation. 

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CANON 3. 



§ i> ii, ii I- 



Of Candidates for Holy Orders. 

[2.] Should the Bishop, after the receipt of such certificate to 
certificate, see fit to accept the applicant as a Postu- J® ItMdiS 
lant, he shall remit said certificate, or a copy thereof, committee, 
to the Standing Committee, for their consideration, in 
the event of the said Postulant applying to them to 
be recommended as a Candidate for Holy Orders. 

§ v. A Standing Committee, acting as the Ecclesi- standing 

astical Authority of a Diocese or Missionary Juris- competent to 

diction, shall be competent to receive and act upon act - 
applications under this Canon from persons desiring 
to be received as Postulants. 



CANON 3. 

Of Candidates for Holy Orders. 

§ i. Candidates for Holy Orders are divided into Two classes, 
two classes, viz., Candidates for Deacon's Orders 
only, and Candidates for the Priesthood. 

§ ii. A Postulant shall apply for recommendation Postulant to 

to the Standing Committee of the Diocese or Mis- standing 

sionary Jurisdiction of the Bishop to whom his notice Committee, 
of intention has been given. 

§ hi. A Postulant, having been duly received, may And shall lay 
thereafter apply to the Standing Committee for a certafnpa™ 
recommendation to the Bishop for admission as vera. 
a Candidate for Holy Orders ; and he shall then lay 
before the Standing Committee the following papers, 
viz. : 

(a.) An application signed by himself. pAca^on 8 **" 
(5.) The Bishop's approval, in writing, of his The Bishop's 
desire to become a Candidate. approval. 

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CANON 3. 



§ iv, v. 



Of Candidates for Holy Orders. 



certificate. (e.) A certificate in the following words: 

To the Standing Committee of 
Place, 
Date, 

We, whose names are hereunder written, do certify from our 
personal knowledge, or from evidence satisfactory to us, that A. B. 
is pious, sober, and honest; that he is attached to the doctrine, 
discipline, and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and 
that he is a communicant of the same in good standing. We do 
furthermore declare that, in our opinion, he possesses such quali- 
fications as fit him for entrance on a course of preparation for 
the Holy Ministry. 

(Signed) 



Signed by- 
Minister and 
Vestry. 
Certificate to 
be attested. 



If Parish has 
no Minister, 
Certificate 
may be 
signed by 
some Presby- 
ter. 



This certificate must be signed by the Minister of 
the Parish to which the applicant belongs, and by a 
majority of the whole Vestry, and must be attested 
by the Minister, or by the Secretary of the Vestry, as 
follows, viz. : 

I hereby certify that the foregoing certificate was signed at a 
meeting of the Vestry of Parish, duly convened at 

on the day of and that the names attached are those 

of all (or a majority of all) the members of the Vestry. 
(Signed) 

Minister or Secretary. 

§ iv. But should the Parish be without a 
Minister, it shall suffice that in his place the 
certificate be signed by some Presbyter of the 
Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction in good 
standing, the reason for the substitution being 
stated in the attesting clause. 



If there be no 
Parish, by 
whom certifi- 
cate is to be 
signed. 



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§ v. [1.] Should there be no organized Parish 
at the place of residence of the applicant, or 
should it be impracticable, through circumstances 
not affecting his moral or religious character, 
to obtain the signatures of the Minister and 
Vestry, or of the Vestry, it may suffice if the 
certificate be signed by at least — 



Of Candidates for Holy Orders. 



(a.) One Presbyter of the Diocese or Mis- 
sionary Jurisdiction, in good standing ; and, 

(b.) Four Laymen, communicants of this 
Church, in good standing. 

[2.] In such case, the reasons for departing 
from the regular form must be given in the 
attesting clause, which shall be signed by the 
same, or some other Presbyter of this Church 
in good standing, and shall be in the following 
words, viz. : 

I hereby certify, that the Laymen whose names are attached to 
the foregoing certificate are communicants of this Church in good 
standing, and that the reasons for departing from the regular form 
are (here give the reasons). 
(Signed) 

Presbyter of the Diocese, or Missionary 
Jurisdiction, of 

§ vi. [1.] Should the applicant have been a 
Minister or Licentiate, in some other body of 
Christians, it may suffice, that the certificate 
be signed by — either 

(a.) Eight Adult Laymen, members in good 
standing of the denomination from which the 
applicant has come, or 

(b.) Eight Adult Laymen, members in good 
standing of the Protestant Episcopal Church, or 

(c.) Eight Adult Laymen, members in good 
standing, in part members of this Church and 
in part of the denomination from which the 
applicant has come. 

[2.] The genuineness of the signatures to such 
certificate and the good standing of the signers 
must be attested by some person or persons 
known to a member of the Standing Committee, 
or under the seal of a Notary Public, in the fol- 
lowing words, viz. : 

I do hereby certify, that the names attached to the foregoing 
certificate are genuine, and are those of persons in good standing, 
members of (as the case may be). 
(Signed) 



Reasons for 
this form of 
certificate to 
be stated. 



If applicant 
be a Minister 
of other 
Christian 
body, who 
shall sign 
certificate. 



Signatures to 
be attested. 



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'ICMlt I. CANON 3. § vii. 



Of Candidates for Holy Orders. 



[3.] He shall, in such, case, also lay before 
the Standing Committee a certificate, signed by 
two Presbyters of this Church, in good stand- 
ing, and known to the Committee, in the follow- 
ing words, viz. : 

To the Standing Committee of 
Place, 
Date, 

We, the undersigned, Presbyters of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, do hereby certify, that we are personally acquainted with 
A. B. : that he has become a communicant of this Church, and that 
we believe him to be pious, sober and honest. Furthermore, that 
after personal conversation with him, and due inquiry concerning 
him as to his change of Ecclesiastical relations, we are satisfied 
that he is sincerely attached to the doctrine, discipline and worship 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and that his desire to leave 
the denomination to which he belonged has not arisen from any 
circumstances unfavourable to his moral or religious character, or 
on account of which it may be inexpedient to admit him to the 
Ministry of this Church. 
(Signed) 

§ vii. [1.] If a Postulant desires to be admitted 
a candidate for Priest's Orders, he must also, in addi- 
tion to the certificates hereinbefore mentioned, lay 
before the Bishop a satisfactory diploma, or other 
satisfactory evidence, that he is a graduate in Arts of 
some university or college in which the Latin and 
Greek languages are duly studied, and that he has 
had a thorough collegiate training in the same. 

[2.] But if the Postulant desiring to become 
a Candidate for the Priesthood be not a graduate 
as aforesaid, he shall be remitted by the Bishop 
to the Examining Chaplains, to be examined as 
to his knowledge of the English language and 
literature, and at least the first principles and 
general outlines of logic, rhetoric, mental and 
moral philosophy, physics and history, and the 
Latin and Greek languages. In a case of emer- 



Certiflcate to 
be laid before 
Standing 
Committee. 



If Postulant 
seeks admis- 
sion to 
Priest's Or- 
ders what is 
required. 



Not a grad- 
uate, to be 
examined by 
Examining 
Chaplains. 



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CAXOX 3. 



§ viii. 



Of Candidates for Holy Orders. 



Latin, etc. ; 
desired. 



gency, the Bishop may appoint any two or more 
learned Presbyters to hold such examination. 

[3.] Should a Postulant wish a knowledge if dispensa 
of the Latin and Greek Languages, and other * icm .£ rom 
branches of learning not strictly ecclesiastical, 
to be dispensed with, he may make written 
application to the Bishop to that effect, specify- 
ing the studies with regard to which he wishes a 
dispensation, and the reasons for the application. 

[4.] Together with the application, he shall Certificate 
lay before the Bishop a certificate signed by at re< i u i r6d - 
least two Examining Chaplains of the Diocese 
in the following words, viz. : 

To the Right Reverend Bishop of 

Place, 
Date, 

The undersigned Examining Chaplains of the Diocese of 

sensible of the serious responsibility assumed in doing any 
thing to lower the standard of learning to be required of one who 
is to he admitted to the Priesthood, and set as a Teacher in the 
Church, yet [here specifying the reasons] do submit that in the 
case of A. P>. the dispensation asked for may be wisely granted. 
(Signed) 



be 



[5.] The Bishop shall remit the application, 
accompanied by the aforesaid certificate to the 
Standing Committee, with such comments as he 
may think fit indorsed thereon. 

[6.] Should the Standing Committee approve 
the said application, they may, by a vote of not 
less than two-thirds of their whole body, recom- 
' mend that the request of the Candidate be 
granted. 

§ viii. The Standing Committee, on the receipt of 
the certificates prescribed in either above, by 

this Canon, and having no reason to suppose the 
existence of any sufficient objection on grounds either 
physical, intellectual, moral or religious, to the ad- 
mission of the applicant, may proceed to recommend 
a Postulant for admission to Candidateship, by a testi- 



Bishop may- 
dispense. 



Standing 
Committee to 
approve. 



Standing 
Committee 
may recom- 
mend 



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CANON 3. 



Of Candidates for Holy Orders. 



byatesti- monial bearing the signatures of a majority of the 
whole Committee, and addressed to the Bishop in 
the following words, viz. : 



To the Right Reverend Bishop of 

Place, 
Date, 

We, whose names are here underwritten, being a majority of the 
whole Standing Committee of and having been duly con- 

vened at do testify, from personal knowledge or from 

certificates laid before us, that we believe that A. B. is pious, sober 
and honest; that he is attached to the doctrine, discipline and 
worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and that he is a 
Communicant of the said Church in good standing; and do further- 
more declare that, in our opinion, he possesses such qualifications 
as fit him for entrance on a course of preparation for the Holy 
Ministry. 

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, this 
day of in the year of our Lord 

(Signed) 

Standing Committee of 



Bishop may 
then admit. 



Bishop shall 
assign texts. 



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§ ix. [1.] The Bishop, on the receipt of the testi- 
monial of the Standing Committee, in either case 
may proceed to admit the applicant as a Candidate 
for Holy Orders ; he shall thereupon record his 
name, with the date of his admission, in a book to be 
kept by the Bishop for that purpose, and shall notify 
the Candidate and the Secretary of the Standing Com- 
mittee that he has been admitted as a Candidate for 
Deacon's Orders only or for the Priesthood, and the 
date of his admission. 

[2.] The Bishop shall assign to each Candidate for 
the Priesthood the texts of Scripture upon which he 
may think fit to require him to prepare discourses 
for presentation at his Examinations. 

[3.] The Bishop shall have the sole discretion of 



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CANON 4. 



§ i, ii- 



General Provisions Concerning Candidates for Holy 
Orders. 



dispensation with a knowledge of the Hebrew lan- Bishop alone 

x . .1 p /^i 1- i j_ can dispense 

guage, m the case oi any L/ancliaate. with, knowl- 

edge of 

§ x. The Bishop of the Diocese, for the purposes Hebrew, 
of this and other Canons relating to Ordination, shall Bi^c-p 1011 ° f 
be understood, in cases so requiring, to signify an 
Assistant Bishop when so empowered under Title I., 
Canon 19, § v., a Missionary Bishop, or any other 
Bishop of this Church canonically in charge of a 
Diocese, or Missionary Jurisdiction, or Congregation 
in foreign parts. 



CANON 4. 

General Provisions Concerning Candidates for Holy 
Orders. 

§ i. [1.] The superintendence of all Candidates for 
Holy Orders, both as to their daily life and as to the 
direction of their theological studies, pertains to 
the Bishop of the Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction 
to which they belong. 

[2.] In a Diocese under the Ecclesiastical Author- 
ity of a Standing Committee, the clerical members of 
the Committee shall, through their President, exer- 
cise such superintendence and direction. 

§ ii. Care shall be taken that every Candidate pur- Diligence in 
sue his studies diligently and under proper direction, q^red^" 
and that he do not indulge in vain or trifling conduct, 
or in amusements unfavourable to that seriousness of 
deportment or to those pious and studious habits or 
that good report which become a person preparing 
for the Holy Ministry. 25 



Supervision 
of candidates. 



In vacant 
Dioceses. 



txtk i. 



CANON 4. 



§ iii, iv. v. 



General Provisions Concerning Candidates for Holy 
Orders. 



No transfer. 



Where stud- 
ies may be 
prosecuted. 



Transfer for 
satisfactory- 
reasons. 



What is not a 

sufficient 

reason. 



§ iii. [1.] A Candidate once admitted must remain 
in canonical connection with the Diocese or Mission- 
ary Jurisdiction in which he has been admitted until 
his ordination, except as hereinafter otherwise pro- 
vided. 

[2.] The Bishop, or the clerical members of the 
Standing Committee when acting as the Ecclesias- 
tical Authority, may permit a Candidate to prosecute 
his studies outside of the Diocese or Missionary Ju- 
risdiction, without disturbing his canonical residence. 

[3.] For reasons satisfactory to the Ecclesiastical 
Authority, letters dimissory may be given him on his 
own request to any other Diocese or Missionary Ju- 
risdiction. 

[4.] The convenience of attending any Theologi- 
cal or other Seminary shall not be held to be in itself 
a sufficient reason for change of canonical residence. 



Candidates 
to make quar- 
terly reports. 



Result of fail- 
ure to report. 



§ iv. [1.] Every Candidate for Holy Orders, unless 
expressly released by the Ecclesiastical Authority 
over him, shall report himself personally or by letter 
at least once in every three months, giving account 
of his manner of life and progress in his studies. 

[2.] Failure to make such report, not accounted 
for to the satisfaction of the Ecclesiastical Authority, 
shall be ground for striking his name from the list of 
Candidates. 



Candidates 
not eligible 
to General 
Convention. 

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§ v. A Candidate for Holy Orders shall not be 
allowed to accept from any Diocesan Convention an 
appointment as a Lay Deputy to the General Con- 
vention. 



txtte i. 



CAXOX 4. 



§ vi, vii. 



General Provisions Concerning Candidates for Holy 
Orders. 



§ vi. [1.] A Candidate for Holy Orders may be candidates 
licensed as a Lay Reader in the Diocese or Jurisdic- ™*^aed Lay 
tion to which he belongs, subject to the restrictions Readers, 
contained in the Canon of Lay Readers. 

[2.] With the consent of his own Bishop he may Lay Readers 

t • . n • • ■ . it in another 

receive, under similar restrictions, such license as a Di OCe s e . 
Lay Reader from any other Bishop for the Diocese of 
such Bishop only. 

[3.] Without this license he shall not take upon Restriction, 
himself such functions. 

§ vii. [1.] Should the application for Holy Orders Bishop to 
of a Candidate for the same be finally rejected by the ^^So" 
Bishop, or should his application to the Standing Candidate is 
Committee for recommendation for ordination be rejected- 
rejected, or should his name be stricken from the list 
of Candidates, it shall be the duty of the Ecclesiasti- 
cal Authority of the Diocese or Missionary Jurisdic- 
tion to give immediate notice thereof to every other 
Ecclesiastical Authority of this Church. 

[2.] A Candidate for Holy Orders in any Diocese candidate re- 

or Missionary Jurisdiction of this Church, whose jectednotto 

be ordained 

application for ordination shall have been formally elsewhere. 

rejected as above, or whose name shall have been 

stricken from the list, shall not be ordained in any 

other Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction, except proviso. 

upon renewal of candidateship, said candidateship to 

continue for not less than one whole year. In any 

case where the application of a Candidate for Holy 

Orders shall have been rejected by any Bishop of this 

Church, it shall be competent to any other Bishop to 

decline an application made to himself, if having 

duly informed himself of the facts of the case, he 

shall deem it expedient so to do. 27 



Z'xttt I. 



CANON 5. 



§ ii. 



CANON 5. 



Candidate to 
present him- 
self for Ex- 
amination. 



Bishop to 
assign Exam- 
iners. 



What the ex- 
amination 
shall cover. 



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Of the Learning and Examinations of a Candidate for 
Deacon's Orders only. 

§ i. A Candidate for Deacon's Orders only, who 
shall fail to present himself for examination within 
three years from the date of his admission as such 
Candidate, shall be liable, after due notice, to be 
dropped from the list of Candidates, at the discretion 
of the Bishop. 

§ ii. [1.] The Bishop, or, if the Diocese be vacant, 
the clerical members of the Standing Committee, 
shall assign to the Candidate his Examiners, who 
shall be two or more Presbyters of good learning, 
and (if possible) Examining Chaplains of the Dio- 
cese or Jurisdiction, and who, upon due notification 
of the duty laid upon them, shall proceed as speed- 
ily as may be to its performance, in accordance with 
the provisions of this section. 

[2.] The examination of a Candidate for the Order 
of Deacons only shall be so conducted as may most 
thoroughly ascertain : 

(a.) His proficiency in the English language. 

(6.) The extent of his acquaintance with the Holy 
Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, in every 
part of which he must be well versed. 

(<?.) His familiarity with the Book of Common 
Prayer, in all its parts and adjuncts, especially 
with the Order of Daily Prayer, with the text of the 
Articles of Religion, with the form and manner of 
making Deacons, and with the instructions therein 
given as to the duties of the office. 



titk I. 



CANON S. 



Of the Learning and Examinations of a Candidate for 
Tfeacon's Orders only. 



(d.~) His sufficiency for conducting the services of 
the Church, and ministering in the office of a Deacon 
in all its parts and functions. 

[3.] If the Candidate has come from another if candidate 
religious body, he shall be also examined on those be from an- 
points in which the denomination from which he other reii- 
has come differs from this Church, with a view ^ lous Dod y- 
to test his information and soundness of doc- 
trine with respect to the same. 

This portion of the examination shall be con- 
ducted, in part at least, by written questions 
and answers, and the replies shall be placed on 
file. 

r4.1 The Examiners shall report, in writing;, to the Re P° rt of Ex> 

i . r . ammers. 

Bishop (or, if the Diocese be vacant, to the clerical 
members of the Standing Committee) the result, 
making separate report upon each of the subjects ap- 
pointed for examination in this Canon, and in the 
following form, viz. : 

To the Eight Reverend Bishop of (or, the Clerical 

Members of the Standing Committee of , as the case 

may be). 
Place, 
Date, 

We, the undersigned, Examining Chaplains of the Diocese of 
(or Presbyters of the Diocese of , as the case may 

be), having been assigned as Examiners of A. B., hereby certify 
that we have examined the said A. B. upon the subjects prescribed 
in Title I., Canon 5, Section ii. Sensible of our responsibility, we 
do give our judgment as follows : 

(Here specify the proficiency of the Candidate upon each of the 
subjects appointed, as made apparent by the examination.) 
(Signed) 

[5.1 The above examinations may be adiourned Examina- 
■ . . , 1 . . tions may be 

from time to time, at the discretion of the Exam- adjourned. 



mers. 



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titk i. 



CANON 6. 



§ i, ii, iii, iv. 



Of the Learning and Examinations of a Candidate for 
Priest's Orders. 



ei 8 amfnS! U8t ^ N ° Bish °P sha11 0rdain an 7 P erSon under the 
provisions of this Canon, without having first at 

some time examined him in the presence of two 

Presbyters. 

CANON 6. 

Of the Learning and Examinations of a Candidate for 
Priest's Orders. 



Candidate to 
present him- 
self for exam- 
ination. 



Three exam- 
inations. 



§ i. A Candidate for Priest's Orders, not being a 
Deacon, who shall fail to present himself for exami- 
nation for Deacon's Orders within three years from 
the date of his admission as such Candidate, shall be 
liable, after due notice, to be dropped from the list of 
Candidates, at the discretion of the Bishop. 

§ ii. There shall be assigned to every Candidate 
for Priest's Orders three separate examinations, to be 
held at such times and places, and with such adjourn- 
ments from time to time, as the Examiners may 
appoint. 

§ iii. No examination at any theological or other 
literary institution shall be held to be equivalent to 
any one or more canonical examinations, or allowed 
to supersede the same ; nor shall any certificate of 
graduation or diploma from any theological or other 
literary institution be held to be sufficient ground for 
dispensing with any part of the Diocesan examina- 
tions of a Candidate. 

kivite^he 17 § iv. [1.] The Bishop may invite the presence and 
Presbyter^to ass i s ^ ance °f anv Presbyter to whom he may propose 
attend. to assign the duty of presenting the Candidate. And 

30 



No substitute 
for canonical 
examina- 
tions. 



t'xth i. 



CANON 6. 



§ v, vi. 



Of the Learning and Examinations of a Candidate for 
Priest's Orders. 



it shall be the privilege of such Presbyter to be pres- 
ent, should he desire it. But without such reason no 
person, save the Bishop, shall be permitted to be pres- 
ent, without the consent of the appointed Examiners. 

[2.] But no Bishop shall take order for the ordina- 
tion of any person to the Priesthood without having 
first himself examined him in the presence of two or 
more Presbyters. 

§ v. [1.] Should the Candidate have come 
from another religious body, especial reference 
shall be had in all his examinations to the 
points upon which the denomination from which 
he has come differs from this Church. 

[2.] So far as may be practicable, and to some 
extent at least, this portion of the several ex- 
aminations shall be conducted by written ques- 
tions and answers, the replies to which shall be 
placed on file. 

§ vi. The three examinations shall be, — 
[1.] The first examination, on the Books of Scrip- 
ture, the Candidate being required to give an account 
of the different Books, to translate from the original 
Greek and Hebrew, and to explain such passages as 
may be proposed to him. 

[2.] In cases of Candidates having dispensa- 
tions from Latin, Greek, or Hebrew and other 
branches of learning not strictly Ecclesiastical, 
the first examination shall extend only to the 
knowledge of the text and interpretation of the 
English Bible, with such other matters as are 
comprised in what are commonly known as 
Introductions to the Holy Scriptures. 

[3.] The second examination shall be on the Evi- 
dences of Christianity, Christian Ethics, and Dog- 
matic Theology. 



Bishop must 
examine. 



If Candidate 
be from an- 
other reli- 
gious body. 



Written ex- 
aminations. 



Character of 
first examin- 
ation. 



Candidates 
having dis- 
pensations. 



Second ex- 
amination. 

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tm i. 



CANON 6. 



§ vii, viii, ix, x. 



Third exam- 
ination. 



Course of 
study. 



Of the Learning and Examinations of a Candidate for 
Priest's Orders. 



£4.] The third examination shall be on Churcli 
History, Ecclesiastical Polity, the Book of Common 
Prayer — its history and contents, and the Constitu- 
tion and Canons of this Church, and those of the 
Diocese to which the Candidate belongs. 

[5.] In all these examinations reference shall be 
had, as closely as possible, to the course of study 
established by the House of Bishops, and to the 
books therein recommended, or equivalent works of 
more recent date. 



Examina- 
tions not to 
be lessened. 



§ vii. Except for urgent or special reasons, these 
examinations shall not be accumulated into one. 



Sermons to 
be presented. 



§ viii. In the course of these examinations, the 
Candidate shall read or present three sermons com- 
posed by himself on some texts of Holy Scripture, 
chosen by the Bishop or by himself, as the Bishop 
shall have determined. 



Further 
qualifica- 
tions re- 
quired. 



Examiners to 
certify result 
to the Bishop. 



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§ ix. At any or at all of the above examinations, 
the Examiners may, and at some one of them shall, 
subject the Candidate to such proof of his ability to 
conduct the service of the Church in an edifying 
manner, and to deliver his sermons with propriety 
and effectiveness, as shall fully satisfy them of his 
competence for the public duties of the Holy Ministry. 

§ x. Satisfaction given in any of these examina- 
tions shall in every case be certified to the Bishop in 
writing (or to the clerical members of the Standing 
Committee, as the case may be), with the signatures 
of all the Examiners, and in the following form, viz. : 



Of Ordination to the Diaconate. 



To the Right Reverend Bishop of (or, the Clerical 

members of the Standing Committee of as the case 

may be). 

Place, 

Date, 

We, the undersigned, Examining Chaplains (or Presbyters, as the 
case may be) of the Diocese (or Missionary Jurisdiction) of 
having been appointed Examiners of A. B., a Candidate for Priest's 
Orders, hereby certify that we have examined the said A. B. upon 
the subjects prescribed in Title I., Canon 6, and, in accordance with 
what we believe to be the will of the Church, as set forth in her 
Ordinal and Canons, and sensible of our responsibility for the evil 
which might come upon the Church through the admission of men 
insufficiently prepared for their work, we do give our judgment, as 
follows : (Here specify the proficiency of the Candidate on each of 
the subjects prescribed.) 
(Signed) 

§ xi. [1.] All the examinations of a Candidate for Examina- 



Priest's Orders may take place, if desired by the 
Candidate, before his ordination to the Diaconate. 

[2.] The successful passage for the first examina- 
tion shall suffice for his admission to Deacon's 
Orders. 



tions for 
Priesthood 
may prece de 
ordination to 
Diaconate. 



CANON 7- 

Of Ordination to the Diaconate. 

§ i. Deacon's Orders shall not be conferred on any 
person under the age of twenty-one years complete. 

§ ii. A Candidate for Deacon's Orders only shall 
not be ordained within one year from his admission 
as such candidate. 

§ iii. A Candidate for Priest's Orders shall not be 
made Deacon within three years from his admission as 
such Candidate, unless the Bishop, for urgent reasons, 
with the advice and consent of three-fourths of the 



Age for ordi- 
nation. 

Candidate for 
Deacon's Or- 
ders only not 
to be or- 
dained for 
one year. 
Candidate for 
Priest's Or- 
ders not to be 
ordained 
Deacon for 
three years. 

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txtk I. 



CANON 7. 



§ iv, v. 



Of Ordination to the Diaconate. 



whole Standing Committee, shall shorten the time of 
his candidateship, but in no case shall the time be 
Proviso. shortened to less than six months ; Provided, further, 
that in case a person who has attained the age of 
thirty-five years, and who has been duly confirmed 
and admitted to the Holy Communion in this Church, 
desires to become a Candidate for Priest's Orders with 
a dispensation from the usual period of candidateship, 
but not from any canonical examination prescribed 
for the Diaconate and Priesthood, and applies for 
this dispensation on the ground of mature age and 
experience in speaking and teaching publicly, he 
being also a graduate in arts in some reputable 
college or university, the Bishop may, by and with 
the advice and consent of three-fourths of the Stand- 
ing Committee, admit him at once to Deacon's 
Orders ; Provided, also that he shall not be advanced 
to the Priesthood until the expiration of one full year 
from his admission to the Order of Deacons. 



Recommen- 
dation from 
Standing 
Committee 
necessary. 



§ iv. No person shall be ordained Deacon unless he 
be first recommended to the Bishop for ordination by 
the Standing Committee of the Diocese or Mission- 
ary Jurisdiction to which he belongs. 



Essentials to 
such recom- 
mendation. 

His own ap- 
plication. 

Certificate 
from the 
Bishop. 



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§ v. In order to such recommendation, he must lay 
before the Standing Committee : 

(a.) An application therefor in writing, under his 
own signature, which shall state the date of his birth. 

(J.) A certificate from the Bishop by whom he 
was admitted a Candidate, declaring the date of his 
admission, and the character of his candidateship. 
Provided, that when such certificate cannot be had, 



titk I. 



CANON 7. 



Of Ordination to the Diaconate. 



other evidence, satisfactory to the Committee, shall 
suffice. 

(c.') A certificate from at least one Presbyter of certificate 

fro m 9, Pr©S" 

this Church in good standing, and known to the t>yter. 

Ecclesiastical Authority, in the following words, viz. : 

To the Standing Committee of 
Place, • 
Date, 

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with A. B., and 
that I believe him to be well qualified to minister in the office of 
Deacon to the glory of God and the edification of His Church. 
(Signed) 

((?.) A certificate from the Minister and Vestry of certificate 
the Parish of which he is a member, in the following fater. 1 " 8 Mm " 
words, viz. : 

To the Standing Committee of 
Place, 
Date, 

We, whose names are hereunder written, do certify, from per- 
sonal knowledge or from evidence satisfactory to us, tbat A. B., 
for the space of three years last past, hath lived piously, soberly 
and honestly, and bath not since the date of his admission as a 
Candidate for Holy Orders, written, taught or held anytbing con- 
trary to the doctrine or discipline of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church. And, moreover, we think him a person worthy to be 
admitted to the Sacred Order of Deacons. 

(Signed) Minister of Parish 

Vestry of 

This certificate must be attested by the Minister of certificate to 
the Parish, or by the Clerk or Secretary of the Vestry, be att6Sted - 
as follows, viz. : 

I hereby certify, that A. B. is a member of Parish, 
in and a communicant in the same; that the foregoing 

certificate was adopted at a duly convened meeting of the Vestry, 
and that the names attached are those of a majority of the whole 
body. 

(Signed) 

Minister of 

or Clerk or Secretary of Vestry. ^ 



txtk I. 



CANON 7. 



§ vi, vii, viii. 



Of Ordination to the Diaconate. 



If Parish be 
vacant, cer- 
tificate from 
Vestry. 



If there be no 
Parish, certif- 
icate from a 
Presbyter 
and laymen. 



Standing 
Committee 
may then 
recommend. 



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§ vi. Should the Parish to which the Candi- 
date belongs be vacant, it shall suffice if the 
foregoing certificate be signed by the Vestry 
and by some Presbyter of the Diocese in good 
standing. But in such case, the attesting clause 
shall state the reason for departure from the 
regular form. 

§ vii. Should there be, no organized Parish at 
the place of residence of the Candidate, or, 
there being such Parish, should the Candidate 
be unable, through circumstances not affecting 
his moral or religious character, to procure such 
certificate from the Minister and Vestry, the 
Standing Committee may accept a certificate in 
the same words, signed by one Presbyter of this 
Church in good standing and six respectable 
Laymen, communicants of this Church, the 
attesting clause in such case being subscribed 
by the Presbyter signing the certificate, or by 
some other Presbyter of this Church known to 
the Committee, in the following, words, viz. : 

I hereby certify, that all the signatures to the foregoing certifi- 
cate are genuine, and are those of communicants of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church in good standing. I further certify, that the 
certificate was so signed for no reasons unfavourably affecting the 
moral or religious character of the candidate, but because (here 
give the reasons for departing from the regular form). 
(Signed) 

§ viii. [1.] the Standing Committee, on the receipt 
in either case of the certificates prescribed as above, 
and having reason to believe that all other canonical 
requirements have been complied with, and having 
no reason to suppose the existence of any sufficient' 
obstacle, physical, intellectual or moral, may, at a 
meeting duly convened, a majority of all the Com- 
mittee consenting, proceed to recommend the Candi- 
date for ordination by a testimonial addressed to the 
Bishop in the following words, viz. : 



t 'xtk i. 



CANON 8. 



Of Deacons. 

To the Right Reverend Bishop of 

We, whose names are hereunder written, being a majority of the 
whole Standing Committee of and having been duly con- 

vened at do testify that A. B. hath laid before us satis- 

factory certificates that for the space of three years last past he 
hath lived piously, soberly and honestly, and hath not, since his 
admission as a Candidate for Orders, written, taught or held any- 
thing contrary to the doctrine or discipline of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church; and we hereby recommend him for admission 
to the Sacred Order of Deacons. In witness whereof, we have 
hereunto set our hands, this day of in the year of 

our Lord 

(Signed) 

Standing Committee of 
[2.] This testimonial shall be signed by all con- Testimonial 

. , j , • to be signed. 

sentmg to its adoption. 

§ ix. [1.] The testimonial above prescribed having Bishop to re- 
been presented to the Bishop, and there being' no Q uire S1 & na ; 

A r ° ture to decla- 

known objection to the ordination of the Candidate ration in Art. 
on grounds physical, intellectual or moral, the Bishop ti °^ Constitu " 
shall require him to sign the declaration prescribed 
by Article 7 of the Constitution of this Church, and 
shall then proceed to take order for the ordination at To take or- 
such time and place as may to him seem best, Ration ° rdl " 
giving the preference whenever practicable to one of 
the Ember Seasons. 

[2.] But no appointment for the ordination of any standing 
Candidate shall be made until the Bishop shall have assent es^n- 
sufficient knowledge of the favourable action of the tial - 
Standing Committee. 

CANON 8. 

Of Deacons. 

§ i. Every Deacon shall be subject to the regulation Deacons sut>- 
of the Bishop of the Diocese or Missionary Juris- Nation of gula " 
diction for which he has been ordained Cor, if there Bishop. 

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txtte i. 



CANON 8. 



§ ii, Hi. 



Of Deacons. 



be no Bishop, to that of the Clerical Members of the 
Standing Committee, acting by their President), until 
he receive letters dimissory therefrom to some other 
Diocese or Missionary J urisdiction, and be thereupon 
accepted as a clergyman by such other Diocese or 
Jurisdiction. He shall officiate in such places only 
as the Bishop (or the Clerical Members of the Stand- 
ing Committee, as the case may be) may direct. 



No transfer 
of Deacons. 



§ ii. No Deacon who shall not have passed the 
Examinations for Priest's Orders, shall be transferred 
to another Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction with- 
out the written request of the Ecclesiastical Authority 
of the said Diocese or Jurisdiction. 



Restrictions 
upon settle- 
ment. 



Shall act un- 
der direction. 



Placed under 
authority of 
Presbyter. 



May be ad- 
mitted candi- 
date for 
Priest's Or- 
ders. 



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§ iii. [1.] No Deacon shall be settled as a Rector 
over a Parish or Congregation, or permitted, except 
in time of war, to accept a chaplaincy in the Army 
or Navy. 

[2.] If appointed to minister in a Parish or Con- 
gregation of a Presbyter, he shall act under the 
direction of such Presbyter in all his ministrations. 

[3.] If appointed to minister in a Parish or Con- 
gregation without a Rector, he shall, if not under 
the immediate direction of the Bishop, be placed 
under the authority of some neighbouring Presbyter, 
by whose directions, subordinately to the Bishop, he 
shall in all things be governed. 

[4.] A Candidate for Deacon's Orders only, who 
has been ordained to the Diaconate, may thereafter 
be admitted by his Bishop a Candidate for Priest's 
Orders, on compliance with the provisions of Title I., 
Canon 3, § vii. But in such case he shall not by his 



t'xtk I. 



CANON 9. 



§ i, ii, iii, iv. 



General Provisions Relating to Ordination to the 
Priesthood. 



previous examinations for the Diaconate be relieved 
from any of those prescribed in Title I., Canon 7, for 
Candidates for the Priesthood. 

CANON 9. 

General Provisions Relating to Ordination to the Priest- 
hood. 

§ i. Priest's Orders shall not be conferred npon Age for or a.i- 
any one until he shall have attained the age of twenty- nation- 
four years complete. 

§ ii. No person shall be ordered Priest until he has Must have 

been a Deacon one full year, except when, by the been Deacon 

. . n one year, 

advice and consent of a majority of the whole Stand- 
ing Committee, the time may be shortened. 

§ iii. A Candidate for Priest's Orders shall not be Must have 
ordained Priest within three years from his admission ^ een ^andi- 

^ . date three 

as such Candidate, unless the Bishop, for urgent rea- years, 
sons, with the advice and consent of three-fourths of 
the whole Standing Committee, shall shorten the Exceptions, 
time of his candidateship to not less than one year ; 
but, in case the Candidate was not admitted a Candi- 
date for Priest's Orders until he was a Candidate for 
Deacon's Orders only, or was admitted under a dis- 
pensation from any of the regular examinations, the 
time of his candidateship shall not be shortened to 
less than two years. 

§ iv. A Candidate for Priest's Orders, who if from an- 
has been a student of theology, or minister, or other body of 
licentiate, in any other body of Christians which Christians, 
provides thorough theological training for the 
Ministry, may be allowed, as part of the dura- 
tion of his candidateship, by the Bishop with 

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t 'xttt I. 



CANON 10. 



Of Ordination to the Priesthood. 



the advice and consent of the Standing Commit- 
tee, the period during which he may have been 
a student of theology, provided the time so al- 
lowed shall not exceed two years. 



CANON 10. 



Candidate to 
lay before 
Standing 
Committee 

Certificate 
from Bishop. 



Certificate 
from two 
Presbyters. 



Of Ordination to the Priesthood. 

§ i. A Candidate for Priest's Orders, on making 
application for his ordination to the Priesthood, shall 
lay before the Standing Committee : 

(a.~)~ A certificate from the Bishop, or if the Dio- 
cese be vacant, from the President of the Standing 
Committee, attesting that he is of sufficient age, and 
that the term of his candidateship and the time of his 
service in the Diaconate have been completed. 

(5.) A certificate from two Presbyters in the fol- 
lowing words, viz. : 



To the Standing Committee of 
Place, 
Date, 

We do hereby certify, that A. B. , a Candidate for Priest's Orders, 
for the space of three years last past (or since the day of in 
the year , that being tbe date of his admission to Deacon's 
Orders), hath lived piously, soberly and honestly, and hath not, so 
far as we know or believe, written, taught or held anything con- 
trary to the doctrine or discipline of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church. And, moreover, we think him a person worthy to be ad- 
mitted to the Sacred Order of Priests. This certificate is founded 
on our personal knowledge of the said A. B., for one year last past, 
and for the residue of the time upon evidence satisfactory to us. 
(Signed) 



certificate s e \ A cer tificate from the Vestry of the Parish 

from Vestry v ' •> 

of Parish. where he resides, in the following words, viz. : 

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t'xtit I. 



CANON 10. 



Of Ordination to the Priesthood. 

To the Standing Committee of 
Place, 
Date, 

We, whose names are hereunder written, do certify, from per- 
sonal knowledge, or from evidence satisfactory to us, that A. B., 
for the space of three years last past (or since the day of in 
the year , that being the date of his admission to the Diacon- 
ate) hath lived piously, soberly and honestly, and hath not written, 
taught or held anything contrary to the doctrine or discipline of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church. And, moreover, we think him 
a person worthy to be admitted to the Sacred Order of Priests. 
(Signed) 



This certificate must be attested by the Minister of Certificate to 
e Parish, or i 
try, as follows 



the Parish, or by the Clerk or Secretary of the Ves- be attested 



I hereby certify, that A. B. is a resident of Parish, in 

. The foregoing certificate was adopted at a duly convened 
meeting of the Vestry of Parish; and the names attached 

are those of a majority of the whole Vestry. 
(Signed) . 

Minister of 
or Clerk or Secretary of the Vestry. 

(d.) Should the Parish be vacant, or should If Parish be 
the Candidate be himself the Minister thereof, it vacant, 
shall suffice that the foregoing certificate be 
signed by a majority of the whole Vestry, and 
attested by the Clerk or Secretary in the same 
words as before, but with an additional clause 
explanatory of the omission of the signature of 
the Minister. 

(e.) Should there be no organized Parish at if there be no 
the place of residence of the Candidate, or there Parish, 
being such Parish, should he be unable, through 
circumstances not affecting unfavourably his 
moral or religious character, to procure such 
certificate from the Minister and Vestry, the 
Standing Committee, if the circumstances seem 
to them to justify such a course, may accept a 
certificate in the same words, sisrned by one 

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t'xttt I. 



CANON 10. 



§ ii, iii. 



Of Ordination to the Priesthood. 



Certificate 
from Presby- 
ter and six 
laymen. 



Presbyter of this Church in good standing, and 
six respectable Laymen, communicants of this 
Church, the attestation in such case being made 
by the Presbyter signing the certificate, or by 
some other Presbyter of this Church, known to 
the Committee, and in the following words, viz. : 



I do hereby certify, that the Lay signatures to the foregoing cer- 
tificate are genuine, and are those of Communicants of the Protest- 
ant Episcopal Church in good standing. I further certify, that 
the certificate was so signed for no reason unfavourably affecting 
the moral or religious character of the Candidate, but because 
(here giving the reasons for departing from the regular form). 
. (Signed) 



Standing 
Committee 
may recom- 
mend. 



§ ii. The certificates above prescribed having been 
presented to the Standing Committee, they may pro- 
ceed to recommend the Deacon for Priest's Orders, 
by a testimonial addressed to the Bishop in the fol- 
lowing words, viz. : 



Title for 
Orders. 



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To the Eight Eeverend Bishop of 

We, whose names are hereunder written, being a majority of the 
whole Standing Committee of , the said Committee having 

been duly convened at , do testify, that A. B., a Candidate 

for Priest's Orders, hath laid before us satisfactory certificates, that 
for the space of three years last past (or since the day of 
in the year , that being the date of his admission to Deacon's 
Orders), he hath lived piously, soberly and honestly, and hath not 
written, taught or held anything contrary to the doctrine or disci- 
pline of this Church: and we hereby recommend him for admis- 
sion to the Sacred Order of Priests. In witness whereof, we have 
hereunto set our hands, this day of in the year of our 
Lord 

(Signed) 

Standing Committee of 

§ iii. No person shall be ordained Priest until he 
shall have produced evidence satisfactory to the 
Bishop that he is engaged with some Church, Parish, 



t'xtit I. 



CANON 11. 



§ i, »■ 



General Provisions with Respect to the Preparation for 
Holy Orders and Admission thereto. 

or Congregation, or as a Missionary, under the Eccle- 
siastical Authority, of some diocese or Missionary 
Jurisdiction, or of some Missionary Society recog- 
nized by the General Convention, or as a professor, 
tutor, or instructor in some college or academy, or 
other seminary of learning, duly incorporated, or as 
a chaplain in the Army or Navy of the United States. 



CANON 11. 

General Provisions with Respect to the Preparation for 
Holy Orders and Admission thereto. 

§ i. [1.] All certificates or testimonials, for which Certificates 

forms are supplied by Canon, should, in order to be SC ribed form, 
valid, be in the words prescribed. 

[2.] No Postulant, Candidate for Holy Orders, or who may not 

student of theology shall sign any of the certificates si & n - 
prescribed in the foregoing Canons relating to Ordi- 
nation. 

[3.] Whenever a dated certificate or testimonial is Date re- 
required, the omission of the date shall render such quired- 
certificate or testimonial liable to rejection. 

[4.] Whenever a substitute for a prescribed certifi- standing 

cate is presented to a Standing Committee, the Com- committee to 

1 a 1 judge the 

mittee shall be the sole judge as to whether the value of sub- 
exigency justifies the substitution. fertmcate. 

§ ii. Whenever the testimonial of the Standing when stand- 
Committee is required, such testimonial must be Jef to°sign lt " 
signed at a meeting duly convened, and, in the testimonial; 

i z . • , , t. , i and by how 

absence ot express provision to the contrary, by a many . 
majority of the whole Committee. ^ 



tm i. 



CANON 11. 



§ iii, iv, v, vi, vii. 



General Provisions with Respect to the Preparation for 
Holy Orders and Admission thereto. 



When vestry s Whenever the certificate of a Vestry is re- 

to sign certifl- f _ J 

cate. quired, such certificate must be signed by a majority 

of the whole Vestry, at a meeting duly convened, 
and the fact must be attested by the Secretary of the 
said Vestry or by the Minister. 

§ iv. Whenever any dispensation from the require- 
ments of the Canons relating to Ordination is per- 
mitted, with the advice and consent of the Standing 
Committee, the application must be first made to the 
Bishop, and if he approves it, be by him referred to 
the Committee. 



To whom ap- 
plication for 
dispensation 
is to be made. 



Standing 
Committee 
refusing to 
recommend 
shall give 
notice to the 
Bishop. 



§ v. If, in the case of any applicant for admission 
as a Candidate for Holy Orders, or for recommenda- 
tion for ordination, a majority of the Standing Com- 
mittee shall be unwilling to proceed, although the 
required certificates have been laid before them, and 
are in due form, it shall be their duty, without delay, 
to give to the Bishop their reasons, in writing, for 
refusal to recommend such applicant. 



Testimonials 
and certifi- 
cates essen- 
tial to ordina- 
tion. 



§ vi. No Bishop of this Church shall ordain any 
person to officiate in any Congregation or Church 
destitute of a Bishop, or situated beyond the limits 
of the United States, until the testimonials and cer- 
tificates required by the Canons relating to Ordina- 
tion shall have been supplied. 



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§ vii. [1.] There shall be appointed in each Dio- 
cese or Missionary Jurisdiction, by the Ecclesiastical 



t'xttt I. 



CANON 11. 



§ VIII, IX. 



General Provisions with Respect to the Preparation for 
Holy Orders and Admission thereto. 



Authority thereof, two or more Examining Chaplains, Examining 
who shall hold their offices at the discretion of the be appointed, 
said Ecclesiastical Authority, and whose duty it shall 
be thoroughly to test the preparation of all such 
Candidates for Hoty Orders as may by the Ecclesi- 
astical Authority be sent to them for that pur- 
pose. 

[2.] The reports of the Examiners shall be in writ- Their reports 
ing, and attested by their signatures. If the appli- writing 
cant has been examined on more subjects than one, 
the report shall specify the result on each subject 
separately. 



§ viii. [1.] Agreeably to the practice of the Primi- stated times 
tive Church, the stated times of ordination shall be 
the Sundays following the Ember weeks. 

[2.] But occasional ordinations may be held at May be as 

other times, as the Bishop shall appoint. app^nt ShaU 

§ ix. Wilful violation or neglect by a Candidate of Conse- 

any of the provisions of the Canons relating to violathfgor 

Ordination shall be ground for refusal or postpone, neglecting 

. <• i • t , ■ these 

ment of his ordination. 



Canons. 



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t'xtU I. 



CANON 12. 



§ iii- 



CANON 12. 



Written 
license may- 
be given by 
the Bishop. 



Limitations. 



Only given for 
a definite 
period. 



License 
revocable. 



Of Lay Readers. 

§ i. A Lay Communicant of this Church may 
receive from the Bishop a written license to conduct 
the service of the Church in a Congregation con- 
vened for public worship, as a Lay Reader ; but such 
license shall not be granted for conducting the ser- 
vice in a Congregation without a Minister, which is 
able, and has had reasonable opportunity, to secure 
the services of an ordained Minister. Such license 
may be given by the Bishop, of his own motion, for 
service in any vacant Parish, Congregation, or Mis- 
sion; but where a Rector is in charge, his request 
and recommendation must have been previously sig- 
nified to the Bishop. Such license must be given 
for a definite period not longer than one year from 
its date ; but it may be renewed from time to time 
by the Bishop's indorsement to that effect. The 
license of any Lay Reader may be revoked at the 
discretion of the Ecclesiastical Authority. 



Restrictions. § ii. A Lay Reader so licensed shall not act as 
such in any Diocese other than his own, unless he 
shall have received another license from the Bishop 
of the Diocese in which he desires to serve. If he 
be a student in any Theological Seminary, he shall 
also obtain the permission of the presiding officer of 
such institution. 



Lay Reader § iii. Every Lay Reader shall be subject to such 
Ecclesiastical regulations as may be prescribed by the Ecclesiasti- 
Authority. cal Authority. In all matters relating to the con- 
duct of the service, and to the Sermons or Homilies 

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txtU I. 



CANON 13. 



§iii. 



Of Deaconesses. 



to be read, he shall conform to the directions of the 

Minister in charge of the Parish, Congregation, or And the 

i • i i • • l ,i • Minister in 

Mission in which he is serving, or, where there is no charg-e. 
Minister in charge, to the directions of the Bishop. 
He shall not use the Absolution, nor the Benediction, Directions 
nor the Offices of the Church, except those for the tk>ns. eSfcnC 
Burial of the Dead, and for Visitation of the Sick 
and of Prisoners, omitting in these last the Absolu- 
tions and Benedictions. He shall not deliver Ser- 
mons of his own composition ; but he may deliver 
addresses, instructions, and exhortations as a cate- 
chist in vacant Parishes, Congregations, or Missions, 
if he be specially licensed thereto by the Bishop. 
He shall not assume the dress appropriate to Clergy- 
men ministering in the Congregation. 



CANON 13. 

Of Deaconesses. 

§ i. Unmarried women of devout character and Deaconesses 
proved fitness may be appointed to the office of po1nted. aP " 
Deaconess by any Bishop of this Church. 

§ ii. The duty of a Deaconess is to assist the Duties. 
Minister in the care of the poor and sick, the relig- 
ious training of the young and others, and the work 
of moral reformation. 

§ iii. No woman shall be appointed to the office of 
Deaconess until she shall be at least twenty-five years 
of age, nor until she shall have laid before the Bishop 
testimonials certifying that she is a communicant in 
good standing of this Church, and that she possesses 



Qualifica- 
tions. 



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titte i. 



CANON 13. 



§ vii. 



Of Deaconesses. 



Testimonial. 



Authority re- 
quired for 
work. 



such characteristics as, in the judgment of the per- 
sons testifying, fit her for at least one of the duties 
above denned. The testimonial of fitness shall be 
signed by two Presbyters of this Church, and by 
twelve lay communicants of the same, six of whom 
shall be women. The Bishop shall also satisfy him- 
self that the applicant has had an adequate prepara- 
tion for her work, both technical and religious, which 
preparation shall have covered the period of two 
years. 

§ iv. No Deaconess shall accept work in a Diocese 
without the express authority, in writing, of the 
Bishop of that Diocese ; nor shall she undertake 
work in a Parish without the like authority from the 
Rector of the Parish. 



Under over- 
sight. 



May resign 
her office. 



May be sus- 
pended. 



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§ v. When not connected with a Parish the Dea- 
coness shall be under the direct oversight of the 
Bishop of the Diocese in which she is canonically 
resident. A Deaconess may be transferred from one 
Diocese to another by letter dimissory. 

§ vi. A Deaconess may at any time resign her 
office to the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese 
in which she is at the time canonically resident ; but 
no Deaconess, having once resigned her office, shall 
be re-appointed thereto, unless there be, in the judg- 
ment of the Bishop of the Diocese where she resigned 
her office, weighty cause for such re-appointment. 

§ vii. The Bishop shall have power, for cause, after 
a hearing granted, to suspend or remove a Deaconess 
from her office. 



^'\ttt I. CANON 14. §i. 



Of Ministers Ordained in Foreign Countries, etc. 

§ viii. No woman shall act as a Deaconess until Set apart by 
she has been set apart for that office by an appro- ser^ce! 3 
priate religious service, to be prescribed by the Gen- 
eral Convention, or, in the absence of such prescrip- 
tion, by the Bishop. 



communion 
with this 
Church. 



CANON 14. 

Of Ministers Ordained in Foreign Countries by Bishops 
in Communion with this Church. 

8 i. A Clergyman coming from a foreign country, Ministers or- 

i t • i i i i-i t ii xt -i i dainedinfor- 

and professing to have been ordained, out of the United eig-n countries 
States by a foreign Bishop in communion with this * 
Church, or by a Bishop consecrated for a foreign coun- 
try by Bishops of this Church under Article 10 of the 
Constitution, or by a Missionary Bishop elected to ex- 
ercise Episcopal functions in any place or places out of 
the United States, shall, before he be permitted to of- 
ficiate in any Parish or Congregation, exhibit to the 
Minister, or if there be no Minister to the Vestry 
thereof, a certificate signed by the Bishop of the Dio- Certificate, 
cese, or if there be no Bishop, by the Standing Commit- 
tee duly convened, that his letters of Holy Orders and 
Letters Testimonial of recent date are authentic, and 
given by some Bishop in communion with this Church, 
and whose authority is acknowledged by this Church ; 
and also that he has exhibited to the Bishop or Stand- 
ing Committee satisfactory evidence of his pious and 
moral character, and of his theological acquirements ; 
and in any case, before he shall be permitted to settle 
in any Church or Parish, or be received into union 
with any Diocese of this Church as a Minister thereof, 

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t'xtk L 



CANON 14. 



Of Ministers Ordained in Foreign Countries, etc. 



Letter 
dimissory. 



Subscription. 



One year's 
residence. 



he shall produce to the Bishop, or if there be no 
Bishop, to the Standing Committee thereof, a letter 
of dismission from under the hand and seal of the 
Bishop with whose Diocese he has been last con- 
nected ; which letter shall be, in substance, that 
provided for in Canon 18, Section vii., of this Title, 
and shall be delivered within six months from the 
date thereof ; and when such Clergyman shall have 
been so received, he shall be considered as having 
passed entirely from the jurisdiction of the Bishop 
from whom the letter of dismission was brought, to 
the full jurisdiction of the Bishop or other Ecclesias- 
tical Authority by whom it shall have been accepted, 
and become thereby subject to all the canonical 
provisions of this Church : Provided, that no such 
Clergyman shall be so received into union with any 
Diocese until he shall have subscribed, in the presence 
of the Bishop of the Diocese in which he applies for 
reception, and of two or more Presbyters, the decla- 
ration contained in Article 7 of the Constitution ; 
which being done, said Bishop or Standing Commit- 
tee, being satisfied of his theological acquirements, 
may receive him into union with this Church as a Min- 
ister of the same : Provided, also, that such Minister 
shall not be entitled to settle in any Parish or Church, 
as canonically in charge of the same, until he shall 
have resided one year in the United States subse- 
quent to the acceptance of his letter of dismission. 



Foreign 
Deacons. 



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§ ii. And if such foreign Clergyman be a Deacon, 
he shall reside in this country at least one year, and 
obtain in this country the requisite testimonials of 
character, before he be ordained a Priest. 



^Xtlt I. CANON 16. §i. 



CANON 15. 

Of the Admission of Ministers ordained by Bishops not 
in Communion with this Church. 

When a Deacon or Priest ordained by a Bishop Ministers or- 

not in communion with this Church, shall apply to mshops^not in 

a Bishop for admission into the same as a minister ^°^™^s lon 

thereof, he shall produce a written certificate from Church shall 
L produce cer- 

at least two Presbyters of this Church stating that, tiflcate. 
from personal knowledge of the party, or satisfac- 
tory evidence laid before them, they believe that 
his desire to leave the communion to which he has 
belonged, has not arisen from any circumstance 
unfavorable to his moral or religious character, or 
on account of which it may be inexpedient to admit 
him to the exercise of the ministry in this Church; 
and he shall also, not less than six months after his 
application, in the presence of the Bishop and two 
or more Presb}'ters, subscribe the declaration con- shaiisub- 
tained in Article 7 of the Constitution ; which being Nation inArt" 
done, the Bishop, being satisfied of his theological 7 - 
acquirements, may receive him as such Minister. 

CANON 16. 

Of Ministers Officiating in a Foreign Language. 

When a Clergyman, coming from a foreign coun- Ministers 
try, and professing to be regularly ordained, shall a^oreYjrF in 
be called to a Church of this communion in which Lan & ua £ e - 
Divine Service is celebrated in a foreign language, 
he may, with the approbation of the Bishop of the 
Diocese in which such Church is situated, acting 
with the advice and consent of the Standing Com- 



t'xttt I. 



CANON 18. 



§i- 



General Regulations of Ministers, etc. 



May settle. 



Evidence of 
being- a Minis- 
ter in this 
Church nec- 
essary for 
officiating 1 . 



Proviso. 



Election and 
institution of 
Ministers. 



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mittee, or with the unanimous consent of the Stand- 
ing Committee if there be no Bishop, and on com- 
plying with the other requisitions of the Canons, 
settle in the said Church, as the Minister thereof, 
without having resided one year in the United 
States, anything in these Canons to the contrary 
notwithstanding. 

CANON 17. 

Of Persons not Ministers in this Church officiating in 
any Congregation thereof. 

No Minister in charge of any Congregation of 
this Church, or, in case of vacancy or absence, no 
Churchwardens, Vestrymen, or Trustees of the Con- 
gregation, shall permit any person to officiate there- 
in, without sufficient evidence of his being duly 
licensed or ordained to minister in this Church : 
Provided, that nothing herein shall be so construed 
as to forbid communicants of the Church to act as 
Lay Readers. 

Title L, Canon 11, Sections i. and ii. are hereby 
repealed: Provided, that such repeal shall not affect 
any case of a violation of said Canon committed 
before this date ; but such case shall be governed 
by the same law as if no such repeal had taken 
place. 

CANON 18. 

General Regulations of Ministers and their Duties. 

§ i. [1.] It is hereby required that, on the elec- 
tion of a Minister into any Church or Parish, the 
Vestry shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to 



txtk I. 



GANON 18. 



§ii. 



General Regulations of Ministers, etc. 



the Bishop, or where there is no Bishop, to the 
Standing Committee of the Diocese, notice of the 
same, in the following form, or to this effect : 

We, the Churchwardens [or, in case of an Assistant Minister, 
We, the Rector and Churchwardens], do certify to the Right Rev. 
[naming the Bishop], or to the Rev. [naming the President of the 
Standing Committee], that [naming the person] has been duly 
chosen Rector [or, Assistant Minister, as the case may be] of 
[naming the Parish or Church]. 

Which certificate shall be signed by the names of 
those who certify. 

[2.] If the Bishop or the Standing Committee be Certificate to 
satisfied that the person so chosen is a qualified ted for record. 
Minister of this Church, the Bishop, or the Presi- 
dent of the Standing Committee, shall transmit the 
said certificate to the Secretary of the Convention, 
who shall record it in a book to be kept by him for 
that purpose. 

[3.1 And if the Minister be a Presbyter, the Concerning 

institution. 

Bishop, or President of the Standing Committee, 
may, at the instance of the Vestry, proceed to have 
him instituted according to the Office established 
by this Church, if that Office be used in the Dio- 
cese. But if he be a Deacon, the act of institution 
shall not take place until after he shall have received 
Priest's Orders. This provision concerning the use 
of the Office of Institution is not to be considered 
as applying to any congregation destitute of a house 
of worship. 

§ ii. No Minister, removing from one Diocese or certificate to 
Missionary District to another, shall officiate as the rnovfn| r from 
Rector, Stated Minister, or Assistant Minister of any tolno^hlr. 6 
Parish or Congregation of the Diocese or District to 

53 



CANON 18. 



General Regulations of Ministers, etc. 



which he removes, until he shall have obtained from 
the Ecclesiastical Authority a certificate in the words 
following : 

I hereby certify that the Rev. A. B. has been canonically trans- 
ferred to my jurisdiction, and is a minister in regular standing. 



Parochial In- 
struction. 



Alms and 
Contribu- 
tions. 



Duty on 

Episcopal 

visitations. 



One month's 
notice. 



§ iii. [1.] The Ministers of this Church who have 
charge of parishes or cures, shall not only be diligent 
in instructing the children in the Catechism, but 
shall also, by stated catechetical lectures and instruc- 
tion, be diligent in informing the youth and others 
in the Doctrine, Constitution, History, and Liturgy 
of the Church. They shall also diligently instruct 
all in their cures concerning the missionaiy work of 
the Church at home and abroad, and offer suitable 
opportunities for contributions from time to time for 
the maintenance of that work. 

[2.] The Alms and Contributions at the Adminis- 
tration of the Holy Communion shall be deposited 
with the Minister of the Parish, or with such Church 
officer as shall be appointed by him, to be applied by 
the Minister, or under his superintendence, to such 
pious and charitable uses as shall by him be thought 
fit. 

§ iv. [1.] It shall be the duty of Ministers to pre- 
pare young persons and others for the holy ordinance 
of Confirmation. And on notice being received 
from the Bishop of his intention to visit any Church, 
which notice shall be at least one month before the 
intended visitation, the Minister shall give immedi- 
ate notice to his parishioners, individually, as oppor- 
tunity may offer, and also to the Congregation on 
the first occasion of public worship after the receipt 



t'xtit I. 



CANON 1 



General Regulations of Ministers, etc. 



of said notice. And he shall be ready to present for 
Confirmation such persons as he shall think properly 
qualified, and shall deliver to the Bishop a list of the List of names, 
names of those confirmed. 

[2.] And at every visitation it shall be the duty Duty to give 
of the Minister, and of the Churchwardens or Ves- informatlon ' 
try, to give information to the Bishop of the state 
of the Congregation, under such heads as shall have 
been committed to them in the notice given as 
aforesaid. 

[3.] And further, the Ministers and Churchwardens Parochial 
of such Congregations as cannot be conveniently Reports - 
visited in any year, shall bring or send to the Bishop, 
at the stated meeting of the Convention of the Dio- 
cese, information of the state of the Congregation, 
under such heads as shall have been committed to 
them at least one month before the meeting of the 
Convention. 



§ v. [1.] Every Minister of this Church shall keep Parish Regis- 
a Register of Baptisms, Confirmations, Communi- terto 6 ept ' 
cants, Marriages, and Funerals, within his cure, 
agreeably to such rules as may be provided by the 
Convention of the Diocese where his cure lies ; and 
if none such be provided, then in such manner as in 
his discretion he shall think best suited to the uses 
of such register. 

[2.] The intention of the Register of Baptisms is Register of 
hereby declared to be, as for other good uses, so Baptisms- 
especially for the proving of the right of the Church- 
membership of those who may have been admitted 
into this Church by the holy ordinance of Baptism. 

[3.] Every Minister of this Church shall make out 



t'xtit I. 



CANON 18. 



§vi. 



List of 
Families. 



General Regulations of Ministers, etc. 



and continue, as far as practicable, a list of all fami- 
lies and adult persons within his cure, to remain for 
the use of his successor, to be continued by him, and 
by every future Minister in the same Parish. 



Officiating of 
Ministers 
within the 
cures of 
others. 



Parish bound- 
aries not oth- 
erwise de- 
fined, 



to be certain 
civil divisions 
of the State. 



Recognized 
by the Bishop. 



If but one 
Church. 



§ vi. [1.] No Minister belonging to this Church 
shall officiate, either by preaching, reading prayers, 
or otherwise, in the Parish, or within the parochial 
cure, of another Clergyman, unless he have received 
express permission for that purpose from the Minis- 
ter of the Parish or cure, or, in his absence, from the 
Churchwardens and Vestrymen, or Trustees of the 
Congregation, or a majority of them. 

[2.] Where Parish boundaries are not defined by 
law, or settled by Diocesan authority under Title 
III., Canon 3, Section ii. of this Digest, or are not 
otherwise settled, they shall, for the purposes of this 
Section, be denned by the civil divisions of the 
State, as follows: 

Parochial boundaries shall be the limits, as now 
fixed by law, of any village, town, township, incor- 
porated borough, city, or the limits of some division 
thereof which may have been recognized by the 
Bishop, acting with the advice and consent of the 
Standing Committee, as constituting the boundaries 
of a Parish. 

If there be but one Church or Congregation 
within the limits of such village, town, township, 
borough, city, or such division of a city or town as 
herein provided, the same shall be deemed the 
parochial cure of the Minister having charge thereof. 
If there be two or more Congregations or Churches 
therein, it shall be deemed the cure of the Ministers 



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t'xttt I. 



CANON 18. 



§ vi. 



General Regulations of Ministers, etc. 



thereof, and the assent of a majority of such Ministers if two or more 
shall be necessary ; but nothing in this Canon shall 
be construed to prevent any Clergyman of this 
Church from officiating in any Parish Church or in 
any place of public worship used by any Congrega- 
tion of this Church, or elsewhere within the parochial 
cure of the Minister of the said Congregation, with 
the consent of the Clergyman in charge of such The consent 
Congregation ; or, in his absence, of the Church- offlciatfng\ f ° r 
wardens and Vestrymen or Trustees of such Congre- 
gation, or of a majority of them. 

When, under Diocesan authority, a new Parish is a new Parish, 
constituted, and its boundaries defined, this Section 
shall be applicable to the same as so established. 

[3.] If any Minister of the Church, from inability Neglect of 
or any other cause, neglect to perform the regular Mimster - 
services in his Congregation, and refuse, without 
good cause, his consent to any other Minister of the 
Church to officiate within his cure, the Church- 
wardens, Vestrymen, or Trustees of such Congrega- 
tion shall, on proof of such neglect or refusal before 
the Bishop of the Diocese, or if there be no 
Bishop, before the Standing Committee, or before 
such persons as may be deputed by him or them, or 
before such persons as may be, by the regulations 
of this Church in any Diocese, vested with the power 
of hearing and deciding on complaints against 
Clergymen, have power, with the written consent of 
the before-mentioned authority, to open the doors 
of their Church to any regular Minister of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. 

[4.] This Canon shall not affect any legal rights Ri £bts of 

n . - ■ _ . , J ° ° property un- 

or property of any Parish. disturbed. 

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CANON 18. 



§ vii. 



General Regulations of Ministers, etc. 



Of Clerical 
Residence 
and Removal. 



Letter Dimis- 
sory. 



When to 
affect Canon- 
ical Resi- 
dence. 



When void. 



When Letter 
shall be ac- 
cepted. 



58 



§ vii. [1.] A Minister of this Church removing 
into the jurisdiction of any Bishop or other Ecclesi- 
astical Authority, shall, in order to gain canonical 
residence within the same, present to said Ecclesias- 
tical Authority a testimonial from the Ecclesiastical 
Authority of the Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction 
in which he last resided, which testimonial shall set 
forth his true standing and character. The said 
testimonial shall be given by the Bishop to the 
applicant, and a duplicate thereof may be sent 
directly to the Bishop of the Diocese or Missionary 
Jurisdiction to which said minister proposes to re- 
move. The testimonial may be in the following 
words : 

" I hereby certify that A. B., who has signified to 
me his desire to be transferred to the Ecclesiastical 
Authority of , is a Presbyter (or Deacon) 

of , in regular standing, and has not, so 

far as I know or believe, been justly liable to evil 
report, for error in religion, or viciousness of life, for 
three years last past." 

[2.] All such testimonials shall be called Letters 
Dimissory. The canonical residence of the Minister 
so transferred shall date from the acceptance of his 
Letter Dimissory, of which the accepting Bishop 
shall give prompt notice both to the applicant and to 
the Bishop from whom it came. If not presented to 
the Bishop within six months from the date of its 
transmission to the applicant, it shall become thereby 
wholly void. 

[3.] If a Minister, removing into another Diocese, 
who has been called to take charge of a parish or con- 
gregation, shall present a Letter Dimissory in the 



Z'xtit i. 



CANON 19. 



§i- 



Of Bishops. 



form above given, it shall be the duty of the Ecclesi- 
astical Authority of the Diocese to which he has re- 
moved, to accept it within six months, unless the 
Bishop or Standing Committee should have heard ^|^ de " 
rumors, that he or they believe to be well founded, 
against the character of the Minister concerned, which 
would form a proper ground of canonical inquiry and 
presentment, in which case the Ecclesiastical Author- 
ity shall communicate the same to the Bishop or 
Standing Committee of the Diocese to whose juris- 
diction the said minister belongs ; and, in such case, 
it shall not be the duty of the Ecclesiastical Author- 
ity to accept the Letter Dimissory unless and until 
the minister shall be exculpated from the said 
charges. 

[4.] It shall be the duty of all ministers to obtain Letters re- 
and present letters of transfer as above described, <i uired - 
whenever they remove from one Diocese or Missionary 
District to any other Diocese or Missionary District, 
whether Domestic or Foreign, and remain there for 
the space of six months. This provision shall not Exceptions, 
apply to Professors in any institution of learning, 
Officers of the Board of Missions, and Chaplains of 
the Army and Navy of the United States. But no unless Canon- 
minister, who shall have taken up his residence in a ferreVficense 
Diocese to which he has not been canonically trans- 1S required, 
ferred, shall be competent to minister therein without 
the license of the Bishop. 

CANON 19. 

Of Bishops. 

§ i. [1.] To entitle a Diocese to the choice of a Election of 
Bishop, by the Convention thereof, there must be, Blshops - 

59 



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CANON 19. 



§i- 



Of Bishops. 



Six Presby- 
ters and six 
Parishes. 



Two or more 

Dioceses 

uniting. 



First proviso. 



Second 
proviso. 

What is a 
settlement. 



60 



at the time of such choice, and have been during 
the year previous, at least six officiating Presbyters 
therein, regularly settled in a Parish or Church, and 
qualified to vote for a Bishop, and six or more 
Parishes represented in the Convention electing. 
But two or more adjoining Dioceses, not having 
respectively the requisite number of Presbyters to 
entitle either to the choice of a Bishop, may asso- 
ciate and proceed to the choice of a Bishop, to ex- 
ercise jurisdiction alike in each of the associated 
Dioceses, if there be at the time of such choice, and 
have been during the year previous, nine or more 
such Presbyters residing in any part of such asso- 
ciated Dioceses, qualified as aforesaid; and the 
Bishop, so elected, shall exercise Episcopal jurisdic- 
tion over each of the associated Dioceses, until such 
time as some one of such Dioceses, having six or 
more Presbyters canonically qualified to elect a 
Bishop, shall elect him, and he shall have accepted 
the office as its own exclusive Diocesan ; whereupon, 
his connection with the other associated Diocese 
or Dioceses shall cease and determine : Provided, 
always, that the Dioceses thus associated in the 
election of a common Bishop, and the Conventions 
thereof, shall, in all other respects, remain as be- 
fore, unconnected and independent of each other: 
and Provided, also, that such association shall be 
dissolved on the demise of the Bishop, if not before. 

[2.] A Minister is settled, for all purposes here 
or elsewhere mentioned in these Canons, who has 
been engaged permanently by any Parish, accord- 
ing to the rules of said Diocese, or for any term not 
less than one year. 



txttt I. 



CANON 19. 



§ii. 



Of Bishops. 

§ ii. [1.] Every Bishop elect, before his consecra- certificates to 
tion, shall produce to the House of Bishops, from by ?he Bishop 
the Convention by whom he is elected, evidence of elect - 
such election ; and, from the House of Deputies in 
General Convention, evidence of their approbation 
of his testimonials, and of their assent to his conse- 
cration ; and also certificates, respectively, in the 
following words; such certificates, in both cases, to 
be signed by a constitutional majority of the mem- 
bers of the Diocesan Convention, or of the House 
of Deputies, as the case may be. The same evi- 
dence of election by, and the same certificate from, 
the members of the Diocesan Convention, shall be 
presented to the House of Deputies in General 
Convention. 



Testimony from the Members of the Convention in the Diocese Testimony 
from whence the person is recommended for consecration. Diocesan 

We, whose names are underwritten, fully sensible how im- Conventio1 
portant it is that the sacred office of a Bishop should not be 
unworthily conferred, and firmly persuaded that it is our duty to 
bear testimony on this solemn occasion, without partiality or 
affection, do, in the presence of Almighty God, testify that A. B. 
is not, so far as we are informed, justly liable to evil report, either 
for error in religion, or for viciousness in life; and that we do not 
know or believe there is any impediment, on account of which he 
ought not to be consecrated to that Holy Office. We do, more- 
over, jointly and severally declare that we do, in our conscience, 
believe him to be of such sufficiency in good learning, such sound- 
ness in the faith, and of such virtuous and pure manners, and 
godly conversation, that he is apt and meet to exercise the Office 
of a Bishop to the honour of God, and the edifying of His Church, 
and to be a wholesome example to the flock of Christ. 



The above certificate shall be presented to the 
House of Deputies in General Convention. 



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i. 



CANON 19. 



§iii. 



Of Bishops. 



Testimony Testimony from the House of Deputies in General Convention. 

from House of 

Deputies. We, whose names are underwritten, fully sensible how impor- 

tant it is that the sacred office of a Bishop should not be ui 
worthily conferred, and firmly persuaded that it is our duty t 
bear testimony on this solemn occasion, without partiality o 
affection, do, in the presence of Almighty God, testify that A. B 
is not, so far as we are informed, justly liable to evil report, eithe 
for error in religion, or for viciousness of life; and that we do not 
know or believe there is any impediment, on account of which h 
ought not to be consecrated to that Holy Office, but that he hath 
as we believe, led his life, for three years last past, piously, soberly 
and honestly. 

[2.] If the House of Bishops consent to the con 
secration, the Presiding Bishop, without delay, shal 
notify the Bishop elect of such consent; and, on 
notice of his acceptance, the Presiding Bishop shaL 
take order for the consecration of said Bishop eleci 
by himself and two other Bishops, or by any three 
Bishops to whom he may communicate the testi 
monials. 



Notification 
of consent to 
consecration 
to be given. 



Order to be 
taken for the 
consecration. 



Consecration 
during recess. 



Consent of 

Standing 

Committees. 



62 



§ iii. [1.] If, during the recess of the Genera 
Convention, the Church in any Diocese should be 
desirous of the consecration of a Bishop elect, the 
Standing Committee of the Church in such Diocese 
may, by their president, or by some person or per 
sons specially appointed, communicate the desire tc 
the Standing Committees of the Churches in tin 
different Dioceses, together with copies of the neces 
sary testimonials ; and if the major number of the 
Standing Committees shall consent to the proposee 
consecration, the Standing Committee of the Diocese 
concerned shall forward the evidence of such con 
sent, together with other testimonials, to the Pre 
siding Bishop of the House of Bishops, or, in case 



tm i. 



CANON 19. 



§iv. 



Of Bishops. 

of his death, to the Bishop who, according to the 
rules of the House of Bishops, is to preside at the 
next General Convention, who shall communicate 
the same to all the Bishops of this Church in the 
United States, excepting those whose resignations 
have been accepted; and if a majority of the 
Bishops consent to the consecration, the Presiding Consent of 

Bishops 

Bishop, without delay, shall notify the Bishop elect 
of such consent ; and, on his acceptance, the Pre- 
siding Bishop shall take order for the consecration 
of said Bishop elect by himself and two other 
Bishops, or by any three Bishops to whom he may 
communicate the testimonials. 

[2.] The evidence of the consent of the different Evidence of 
Standing Committees shall be in the form prescribed consent - 
for the House of Deputies in General Convention ; 
and, without the aforesaid requisites, no consecra- no consecra- 
tion shall take place during the recess of the Gen- th^eemontns 

eral Convention ; but in case the election of a Gene 5. al 

Convention. 

Bishop shall take place within three months before 
the meeting of the General Convention, all matters 
relative to the consecration shall be deferred until 
the said meeting. 

§ iv. No man shall be consecrated a Bishop of A ^ e - 
this Church until he shall be thirty years old. 

§ v. When a Bishop of a Diocese is unable, by B i sn0 p 
reason of old age, or other permanent cause of Coadjutor, 
infirmity, or by reason of the extent of his Diocese, 
to discharge his Episcopal duties, one Bishop Co- 
adjutor may be elected by and for the said Diocese, 
who shall, in all cases, succeed the Bishop in case 
of surviving him : Provided, that before the election 

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CANON 19, 



Of Bishops. 



of a Bishop Coadjutor for the reason of extent of 
Diocese, the consent of the General Convention, or 
during the recess thereof, the consent of a majority 
of the Bishops and of the several Standing Com- 
mittees, must be had and obtained. Prior to any 
election of a Bishop Coadjutor, the Bishop of the 
Bishop shall Diocese shall consent in writing to such election, 
duties he and in such consent he shall state the duties which 
assigns. h e thereby assigns to the Bishop Coadjutor when 
duly elected and consecrated. And in case of the 
inability of the Bishop of the Diocese to issue the 
aforesaid consent to the election of a Bishop Co- 
adjutor, the Standing Committee of the Diocese may 
request the Convention to issue such letter of con- 
sent. And the request of the said Standing Com- 
mittee shall be accompanied by medical certificates 
of the inability of the Bishop of the Diocese to 
R°hnn ffraean i ssue sucn written consent. No person shall be 
elected or consecrated a Suffragan Bishop, nor shall 
there be more than one Bishop Coadjutor in a 
Diocese at the same time. 

§ vi. [1.] The House of Deputies may, from time 
to time, on nomination by the House of Bishops, 
elect a suitable person or persons to be a Bishop or 
Bishops of this Church, to exercise Episcopal func- 
tions in States or Territories, or parts thereof, not 
organized into Dioceses. The evidence of such 
election shall be a certificate, to be subscribed by a 
constitutional majority of said House of Deputies, 
in the form required by Section ii. of this Canon, 
to be given by the members of Diocesan Conven- 
tions on the recommendation of Bishops elect for 
consecration, which certificate shall be produced to 
the House of Bishops ; and if the House of Bishops 
shall consent to the consecration, they may take 
order for that purpose. 

£2.] The Bishop or Bishops so elected and conse- 



Of Domestic 

Missionary 

Bishops. 



Mode and 
evidence of 
election. 



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t'xtit I. 



CANON 19. 



§vi. 



Of Bishops. 



crated, shall exercise Episcopal iunctions in such 
States and Territories, or parts thereof, in conformity 
with the Constitution aud Canons of the Church, 
and under such regulations and instructions, not 
inconsistent therewith, as the House of Bishops may 
prescribe ; and the House of Bishops may, at any 
time, increase or diminish the number of States or 
Territories, or parts thereof, over which the said 
Bishop or Bishops shall exercise Episcopal func- 
tions. 

[3.] In case of the death or resignation of a 
Missionary Bishop, or of vacancy by other cause, 
the charge of the vacant Missionary Jurisdiction 
shall devolve on the senior Bishop of this Church, 
with the power of appointing some other Bishop as 
his substitute in said charge. 

[4.] The jurisdiction of this Church extending 
in right, though not always in form, to all persons 
belonging to it within the United States, it is hereby 
enacted that each Missionary Bishop shall have 
jurisdiction over the Clergy in the district assigned 
him. Every such Bishop shall yearly appoint two 
Presbyters, and two Laymen communicants of this 
Church, resident within his Missionary Jurisdiction, 
to perform the duties of a Standing Committee for 
such jurisdiction, who shall continue in office till 
their successors are appointed : Provided, that no 
Standing Committee constituted under this Section 
shall have power to give or refuse assent to the 
consecration of a Bishop. 

[5.] He shall, for the due administration of his 
jurisdiction, select the Constitution and Canons of 
one of the Dioceses of this Church, which shall 
remain in force, as far as applicable to the circum- 
stances of such Missionary Jurisdiction, until it 
shall be erected into a Diocese, and shall have 
adopted its own Constitution and Canons. 

[6.] In case a presentment and trial of a Clergy- 



Exercise of 

Episcopal 
functions. 



Extent of 
Jurisdiction. 



Vacancy. 



Jurisdiction 
over Clergy, 
and mode of 
exercising it. 



Power to ap- 
point a Stand- 
ing Commit- 
tee. 



Proviso 



The Constitu- 
tion and Can- 
ons of the 
Jurisdiction. 



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t'xtU I. 



CANON 19. 



§ vi. 



Of Bishops. 



Proviso. 



Entitled to 
seat in the 
House of 
Bishops. 
Eligible as a 
Diocesan. 
Power upon 
Uhe organiza- 
tion of a 
Diocese. 

Proviso. 



Report to 
General Con- 
vention, 
and to the 
Board of 
Missions. 



man become proper, the Clerical Members of the 
Standing Committee may make presentment : Pro- 
vided, that the Court shall be composed of at least 
three Presbyters ; and if there be not a sufficient 
number of qualified Presbyters within his jurisdic- 
tion (excluding the members of the Standing Com- 
mittee, and the accused), the said Missionary Bishop 
may call to his aid Presbyters of any Diocese or 
Missionary Jurisdiction sufficiently near. 

[7.] Any Bishop or Bishops elected and conse- 
crated under this Section shall be entitled to a seat 
in the House of Bishops, and shall be eligible to 
the office of Bishop in any organized Diocese within 
the United States. And whenever a Diocese shall 
have been organized within the jurisdiction of such 
Missionary Bishop, if he shall be chosen Bishop of 
such Diocese, he may accept the office without 
vacating his Missionary appointment : Provided, 
that he continue to discharge the duties of Mis- 
sionary Bishop within the residue of his original 
jurisdiction, if there be such residue. 

[8.] Every such Bishop shall report to each Gen- 
eral Convention his proceedings, and the state and 
condition of the Church within his Missionary Juris- 
diction ; and, at least once a year, make a report to 
the Board of Missions. 



Of Foreign 
Missionary 
Bishops. 



Evidence of 
Election. 



66 



§ vii. [1.] The House of Deputies may, from time 
to time, on nomination by the House of Bishops, 
elect a suitable person or persons to be a Bishop or 
Bishops of this Church, to exercise Episcopal func- 
tions in any Missionary station or stations of this 
Church out of the Territory of the United States, 
which the House of Bishops, with the concurrence 
of the House of Deputies, may have designated. 
The evidence of such election shall be a certificate, 
to be subscribed by a constitutional majority of said 
House of Deputies, expressing their assent to the 



txtte i. 



CANON 19. 



§vii. 



Of Bishops. 



said nomination, which certificate shall be in the Testimony 
following form: S£T * 

We, whose names are underwritten, fully sensible how im- * 
portant it is that the sacred office of a Bishop should not be 
unworthily conferred, and firmly persuaded that it is our duty 
to bear testimony on this solemn occasion, without partiality or 
affection, do, in the presence of Almighty God, testify that the 
Reverend A. B., nominated by the House of Bishops to the 
House of Deputies for election to the Bishopric of the Mission- 
ary District of , as a suitable person to be elected a 
Bishop of this Church in foreign lands, has been duly and 
canonically elected by the House of Deputies as Bishop afore- 
said, on this day of A. D. . And we 
whose names are hereunto subscribed, members of the House 
of Deputies, do hereby testify that the said Reverend A. B., 
Missionary Bishop elect of , is not, so far as we are in- 
formed, justly liable to evil report, either for error in religion, 
or for viciousness in life ; and that we do not know or believe 
there is any impediment, on account of which he ought not to 
be consecrated to that Holy Office. 

We do, therefore, hereby severally signify our assent to the 
said nomination and election, humbly trusting that the conse- 
cration of the said Bishop elect will conduce to the edification 
and enlargement of the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Done at , in General Convention of the Church in the 

United States, on this day of A. D. 

This certificate shall be produced to the House of 
Bishops ; and if the House of Bishops shall consent 
to the consecration, they may take order for that 
purpose. 

| 2.] Any Bishop elected and consecrated under Limitation of 
this Section, or any Foreign Missionary Bishop here- i urlsdlctlon - 
tofore consecrated to exercise Episcopal functions 
in any place or country which may have been thus 
designated, shall have no jurisdiction, except in the 
place or country for which he has been elected and Shall have a 
consecrated. He shall be entitled to a seat in the House of 
House of Bishops, but shall not become a Diocesan I^°jJf t j on 
Bishop in any organized Diocese within the United upon eiigibil- 
States, unless with the consent of three fourths of ^J^ 3,1310 ' 
all the Bishops entitled to seats in the House of 
Bishops, and also of three fourths of the Deputies 
present at the Session of the General Convention, 
or, in the recess of the General Convention, with 

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CANON 1 9. 



§ vii. 



Of Bishops. 



Mode of pre- 
senting and 
trying. 



Power to or- 
dain Deacons 
or Presbyters. 



Testimonials 
necessary in 
such case. 



Proviso. 



the consent of the Standing Committees of three 
fourths of the Dioceses. 

[3.] Any Bishop or Bishops consecrated under 
this Section, or any Foreign Missionary Bishop 
heretofore consecrated, shall, on presentment by two 
thirds of the Missionaries under his charge, for 
immorality or heresy, or for a violation of the Con- 
stitution or Canons of this Church, be tried, and, if 
found guilty, sentenced, in all particulars as if he 
were actually resident within the limits of the 
United States, except that the trial may be within 
any Diocese in the United States. 

[4.] Any Bishop or Bishops elected and conse- 
crated under this Section, or any Foreign Missionary 
Bishop heretofore consecrated, or any Bishop to 
whom the exercise of Episcopal powers and func- 
tions in a foreign Church or Congregation shall 
have been assigned by the Presiding Bishop, may 
ordain as Deacons or Presbyters,- to officiate within 
the limits of their respective Missions, or in such 
foreign Church or Congregation, any persons, of the 
age required by the Canons of this Church, who shall 
exhibit to him or them the testimonials required by 
Canons 6 and 8 of this Title, signed by not less than 
two of the ordained Missionaries of this Church who 
may be subject to his or their charge, or by two 
Presbyters of this Church, in good standing, con- 
nected with such foreign Church or Congregation. 

Provided, nevertheless, that if there be only one 
ordained Missionary attached to the Mission, or 
only one Presbyter of this Church connected with 
such foreign Church or Congregation, and capable 
of acting at the time, the signature of a Presbyter 



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CANON 19. 



§ vii. 



Of Bishops. 

in good standing under the jurisdiction of any 
Bishop in communion with this Church may be 
admitted to supply the deficiency. 

[5.] Any Foreign Missionary Bishop consecrated Power of 
under this Section, or heretofore consecrated, may, dlspen8atlon ' 
by and with the advice of two Presbyters, one of 
whom, if necessity require, shall be a Presbyter in 
good standing under the jurisdiction of any Bishop 
in communion with this Church, dispense with those 
studies required from a Candidate for Deacon's 
Orders by the Canons of this Church : Provided, Proviso, 
that no person shall be ordained by him who has 
not passed a satisfactory examination, in the pres- 
ence of two Presbyters, as to his theological learning 
and aptitude to teach ; and Provided, further, that Proviso, 
no person shall be ordained by him until he shall 
have been a candidate for at least three years. Nor Restrictions, 
shall any Deacon, so ordained, be advanced to the 
Order of Presbyters, who has not been in Deacon's 
Orders for at least one year. Nor shall any Deacon 
or Priest, who shall have been ordained under this 
Section, be allowed to hold any cure, or officiate in 
the Church in these United States, until he shall 
have complied with existing Canons relating to the 
learning of persons to be ordained. 

[6.] Any Foreign Missionary Bishop or Bishops Jurisdiction 
elected and consecrated under this Section, or any Missionaries 
Foreign Missionary Bishop heretofore consecrated, orCler ^ men ' 
shall have jurisdiction and government according to 
the Canons of this Church over all Missionaries or 
Clergymen of this Church, resident in the district 
or country for which he or they may have been 
consecrated. 



t'xttt L 



CANON 19. 



§ vii. 



Of Bishops. 



Bishop shall 
appoint 
Standing 
Committee. 



May act as 
Ecclesiastical 
Authority in 
Bishop's 
absence. 



Trial of 
Ministers. 



Proviso. 

The Court. 
70 



[7.] Every such Bishop shall yearly appoint a Stand- 
ing Committee consisting of not less than two nor more 
than five Presbyters resident within his jurisdiction, 
and, if he shall find it practicable and advisable, of 
an equal number of lay communicants, who shall con- 
tinue in office till their successors are appointed. 
This Standing Committee shall have, so far as the 
circumstances of the jurisdiction permit, the powers 
and duties provided for by the Constitution and 
Canons that have been adopted for the government 
of such jurisdiction. It shall be lawful for any for- 
eign Missionary Bishop about to be absent from his 
jurisdiction for more than three months to authorize 
by writing under his hand and seal the Standing 
Committee to act as the Ecclesiastical Authority of 
such Missionary Jurisdiction. In case of the death 
or resignation of a Foreign Missionary Bishop, or of 
vacancy by other cause, the vacant Missionary Juris- 
diction shall devolve on the Senior Bishop of this 
Church, with the power of appointing some other 
Bishop as his substitute in said charge. 

[8.] If any Minister of this Church, acting under 
a Foreign Missionary appointment, and within the 
jurisdiction of a Foreign Missionary Bishop of this 
Church, shall commit any offence which comes within 
the Provisions of Title II., Canon 2, Of Offences for 
which Ministers may be tried and punished ; or shall 
refuse obedience to the lawful authority of the Mis- 
sionary Bishop, such Clergyman shall be proceeded 
against according to the Constitution and Canons of 
any Diocese of this Church which may have been 
selected at the time of the appointment of the Stand- 
ing Committee of such Missionary Jurisdiction : Pro- 
vided, that a presentment shall first be made by the 
members of said Standing Committee, or, if the 
accused party be a member of the Standing Commit- 
tee, by the other member or members thereof. 

[9.] The Court for the trial of such Minister 
shall consist of five Presbyters, excluding the mem- 



txtk i. 



CANON 19. 



§ viii. 



Of Bishops. 

bers of the Standing Committee ; or, if there be 
not five, then of all the members of such Missionary- 
Jurisdiction. If there be more than five, then shall 
the Standing Committee select, by lot, the five who 
shall compose the Court, which Court shall proceed 
in the trial, according to the Canons of the General 
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church so 
far as the same may be applicable to such a case ; 
and where no provision is made adequate to the 
exigency, the Court shall consider and adjudge the 
case according to the principles of law and equity. 

[10.] The sentence of the Court shall be ren- Sentence, 
dered to the Bishop of such Missionary Jurisdiction, 
who shall have power to revise and modify the 
same, and the decision of the Bishop shall be final 
and conclusive. 

Til.] Every Bishop elected and consecrated under Report to be 

i ■ ct • . , T . . t,. , , made to Gen- 

this kection, or foreign Missionary Bishop hereto- erai Conven- 
fore consecrated, shall report to each General Con- of°M?ssio^is ar ' 
vention his proceedings and acts, and the state of 
the Mission under his supervision. He shall also 
make a similar report at least once a year to the 
Board of Missions of this Church. 



§ vm. ri.T When a Diocese, entitled to the choice Election of a 

j? t>- i i n t ■ i t^. •««- • Missionary 

ot a .Bishop, shall elect as its Diocesan a Missionary Bishop as a 

Bishop of this Church, if such election shall have Dlocesan - 
taken place within three months before a meeting of 
the General Convention, evidence thereof shall be 
laid before each House of the General Convention, 

and the concurrence of each House, and its express Concurrence 

consent, shall be necessary to the validity of said convention, 
election, and shall complete the same ; so that the 

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CANON 1 9. 



§ix. 



Of Bishops. 



Election dur- 
ing recess. 



Consent of 
Bishops and 
Standing 
Committees. 



Notice of 
election. 



Bishop thus elected shall be thereafter the Bishop of 
the Diocese which has elected him. 

[2.] If the said election have taken place more 
than three months before a meeting of the General 
Convention, the above process may be adopted, or 
the following instead thereof, viz. : The Standing 
Committee of the Diocese electing shall give duly 
certified evidence of the election to every Bishop of 
this Church, and to the Standing Committee of every 
Diocese. On receiving notice of the concurrence of 
a majority of the Bishops and of the Standing Com- 
mittees in the election, and their express consent 
thereto, the Standing Committee of the Diocese con- 
cerned shall transmit notice thereof to the Ecclesias- 
tical Authority of every Diocese and Missionary 
Jurisdiction within the United States ; which notice 
shall state what Bishops and what Standing Com- 
mittees have consented to the election. And the 
same Committee shall transmit to every Congrega- 
tion in the Diocese concerned, to be publicly read 
therein, a notice of the election to the Episcopate 
thereof of the Bishop thus elected, and also cause 
public notice thereof to be given in such other way 
as they may think proper. 



Of Episcopal 
charges and 
Pastoral 
letters. 



§ ix. It is deemed proper that every Bishop of 
this Church shall deliver, at least once in three years, 
a charge to the Clergy of his Diocese, unless pre- 
vented by reasonable cause. And it is also deemed 
proper that, from time to time, he shall address 
to the people of his Diocese Pastoral Letters on 
some points of Christian doctrine, worship, or 
manners. 



72 



Z'xtit I. 



CANON 19. 



§x. 



Of Bishops. 

§ x. [1.] Every Bishop in this Church shall visit Of Episcopal 
the Churches within his Diocese at least once in three 
years, for the purpose of examining the state of his 
Church, inspecting the behaviour of his Clergy, ad- 
ministering the Apostolic rite of Confirmation, min- 
istering the Word, and, if he think fit, administering 
the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to the people 
committed to his charge. And if a Bishop shall 
decline, for more than three years, to visit a Parish Declining to 
or Congregation, for reasons which to him shall seem 
sufficient, it shall be the duty of the Rector or Min- 
ister, and Vestry, or of one of them, to apply to the 
Presiding Bishop, to appoint the five Bishops in 
charge of Dioceses, who live nearest to the Diocese 
in which such Church or Congregation may be situ- 
ated, to act as a Council of Conciliation, who shall Council of 
amicably determine all matters of difference between Conclliatlon - 
the parties, and each party shall conform to the 
decision of the Council in the premises. If the Pre- 
siding Bishop shall be the party within whose juris- 
diction the Parish or Congregation may be, then the 
application shall be made to the Bishop next in 
seniority. And in any such case as is above men- 
tioned, the Bishop within whose jurisdiction the 
Parish or Congregation may be, may, at any time, if 
he please, apply himself to the Presiding Bishop, for 
a Council of Conciliation : Provided, that if, by the Proviso, 
action of the General Convention, any Canon shall 
hereafter be made for the establishment of a 
Council or Councils of Conciliation, for the gen- 
eral purpose of amicably reconciling differences of 
this or any other kind, then such a case as is 
above named shall be referred to such general 



73 



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CANON 19. 



§ xi, xii. 



Of Bishops. 



Clergy to 
supply the 
Bishop's 
Parish. 



Expenses of 
visitation. 



Register to 
be kept. 



Of Episcopal 
residence. 



Of Bishops 
absent tem- 
porarily from 
their Dio- 
ceses. 



Proviso. 



74 



Council of Conciliation, and the parties shall abide 
by its decision. 

[2.] To enable the Bishop, who may be Rector of 
a Church, to make his official visitation, it shall be 
the duty of the Clergy, in such reasonable rotation 
as may be devised, to officiate for him in the per- 
formance of his parochial duties, provision being 
made for the payment of their expenses. 

[3.] It is left to each Diocese to make provision, 
in such way as it may deem proper, for defraying the 
necessary expenses of the Bishop's visitation. 

[4.] The Bishop shall keep a register of his pro- 
ceedings at every visitation of his Diocese. 

§ xi. It is the duty of every Bishop of this Church 
to reside within his Diocese. 

§ xii. It shall be lawful for any Bishop of a Dio- 
cese who is about to leave, or has left, his Diocese, 
with the intention of going out of the limits of the 
United States, or, if remaining out of his Diocese for 
the space of three calendar months although without 
leaving the United States, to authorize, by writing 
under his hand and seal, the Bishop Coadjutor, or, 
should there be none, the Standing Committee of 
such Diocese, to act as the Ecclesiastical Authority 
thereof. The Bishop Coadjutor or Standing Com- 
mittee so authorized, shall thereupon become the 
Ecclesiastical Authority of such Diocese, to all 
intents and purposes, until such writing shall be 
revoked, or the Bishop shall return within the Dio- 
cese : Provided, that nothing in this Canon shall be 
so construed as to prevent any Bishop who may have 
signed such writing from exercising his jurisdiction 



t'xtk i. 



CANON 19. 



§ xiii, xiv. 



Of Bishops. 



himself, so far as the same may be practicable, dur- 
ing his absence from his Diocese, or from permitting 
and authorizing any other Bishop to perform Epis- 
copal offices for him. 

§ xiii. The Bishop of each Diocese may compose Forms of 
forms of prayer or thanksgiving, as the case may thanksgiving' 
require, for extraordinary occasions, and transmit n Try ocTa- rdl ~ 
them to each Clergyman within his Diocese, whose sions - 
duty it shall be to use such forms in his Church on 
such occasions. And the Clergy in those States or 
Dioceses or other places within the bounds of this 
Church in which there is no Bishop, may use the 
form of prayer or thanksgiving composed by the 
Bishop of any Diocese. The Bishop in each Diocese 
may also compose forms of prayer to be used before 
legislative and other public bodies. 

§ xiv. [1.] Any Bishop, Bishop Coadjutor, or Performance 
Missionary Bishop may, on the invitation of the dutie^fnva^ 
Convention or the Standing Committee of any Dio- 
cese where there is no Bishop, or where the Bishop 
is for the time under a disability to perform Epis- 
copal offices by reason of a judicial sentence, visit 
and perform Episcopal offices in that Diocese, or in invitation 
any part thereof; and this invitation may be tern- aldrevoca- 
porary, and it may at any time be revoked. ble " 

[2.] A Diocese without a Bishop, or of which the Full charge 
Bishop is for the time under a disability by reason Bishop, 
of a judicial sentence, may, by its Convention, be 
placed under provisional charge and authority of the 
Bishop or Bishop Coadjutor of another Diocese, or of 
a Missionary Bishop', who shall by that act be 
authorized to perform all the duties and offices of 



cant Dio- 
ceses, etc. 



75 



tm i. 



CANON 19. 



§xv. 



Of Bishops 



No other 
Bishop to offi- 
ciate during 
such charge. 



the Bishop of the Diocese so vacant or having the 
Bishop disabled : until, in the case of a vacant Dio- 
cese, a Bishop be duly elected and consecrated for 
the same ; and, in the case of a Diocese whose 
Bishop is disqualified as aforesaid, until the disquali- 
fication be removed ; or until, in either case, the said 
act of the Convention be revoked. 

[3.] No Diocese, while under the provisional 
charge of a Bishop, shall invite any other Bishop 
to perform any Episcopal duty or exercise authority. 



Of Episcopal § xv. fl.] If, during the session of the General 
resignations. " . L - J . . ° 

Convention, or withm six calendar months before 

the meeting of any such Convention, a Bishop shall 
desire to resign his jurisdiction, he shall make 
known, in writing, to the House of Bishops such 
his desire, together with the reasons moving him 
thereto ; whereupon the House of Bishops may in- 
investigation. vestigate the whole case of the proposed resignation, 
including not only the facts and reasons that may 
be set forth in the application for the proposed 
resignation, but any other facts and circumstances 
bearing upon it, so that the whole subject of the 
propriety or necessity of such resignation may be 
placed fully before the House of Bishops. 

[2.] An investigation having thus been made, the 
House of Bishops may decide on the application; 
and, by a vote of a majority of those present, accept 
or refuse to accept such resignation ; and in all 
cases of a proposed resignation, the Bishops shall 
cause their proceedings to be recorded on their 
journal ; and in case of acceptance, the resigna- 
tion shall be complete when thus recorded ; and 

76 



House of 
Bishops to ac- 
cept or refuse 



t'xtit I. 



CANON 19. 



Of Bishops. 



notice thereof shall be given to the House of 
Deputies. 

[3.] In case a Bishop should desire to resign at Resignation 
any period not within six calendar months before during ' recess ' 
the meeting of a General Convention, he shall make 
known to the Presiding Bishop such his desire, with 
the reasons moving him thereto ; whereupon the 
Presiding Bishop shall communicate, without delay, 
a copy of the same to every Bishop of this Church 
having Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and also to the 
Standing Committee of the Diocese to which the 
Bishop desiring to resign may belong ; and, at 
the same time, summon said Bishops to meet him in The Bishops 
person, at a place to be by him designated and at a 
time not less than three calendar months from the 
date of his summons ; and should a number not less 
than a majority of all the said Bishops meet at the 
time and place designated, they shall then have all 
the powers given by the previous clauses of this 
Section to the House of Bishops ; and should a 
number less than a majority assemble, they shall 
have power to adjourn from time to time, until they 
can secure the attendance of a majority of all the 
said Bishops. Should a proposed resignation of a 
Bishop be accepted at any meeting of the Bishops 
for that purpose held during a recess, then it shall 
be the duty of the Senior Bishop present to pro- 
nounce such resignation complete, and to communi- Notice, 
cate the same to the Ecclesiastical Authority of each 
Diocese, who shall cause the same to be communi- 
cated to the several Clergymen in charge of congre- 
gations therein. And it shall be the further duty of Record, 
the Presiding Bishop to cause such resignation to be 

77 



txtk I. 



CANON 19. 



§ xy. 



Of Bishops. 



If Presiding 1 
Bishop. 



Resigned 
Bishop not 
eligible to a 
Diocese. 



Bishops re- 
signing 1 on ac- 
count of age 
to retain all 
their rights 
and prece- 
dences. 



Bishops with- 
out charge 
subject to 
General Con- 
vention. 



Resignation 
of suspended 
Bishop. 



78 



formally recorded, on the Journal of the House of 
Bishops that may meet in General Convention next 
thereafter. If the Bishop desirous of resigning 
should be the Presiding Bishop, then all the duties 
directed in this Section to be performed by the Pre- 
siding Bishop shall devolve upon the Bishop next in 
seniority. 

[4.] No Diocesan or Bishop^Coadjutor- whose 
resignation has been consummated pursuant to this 
Section, shall, under any circumstances, be eligible 
to any Diocese now in union, or which may here- 
after be admitted into union, with this Church ; nor 
shall he have a seat in the House of Bishops ; but he 
may perform Episcopal acts at the request of any 
Bishop of this Church having Ecclesiastical jurisdic- 
tion, within the limits of his Diocese. Any Bishop 
whose resignation by reason of advanced age and 
bodily infirmity arising therefrom has been consum- 
mated pursuant to this Section, shall retain his seat 
in the House of Bishops, with all the rights and pre- 
cedences therein to which he would otherwise be 
entitled. 

[5.] A Bishop who ceases to have the Episcopal 
charge of a Diocese shall still be subject in all mat- 
ters to the Canons and authority of the General 
Convention. 

[6.] In case a suspended Bishop of this Church 
should desire to resign at any period not within six 
calendar months before the meeting of a General 
Convention, he shall make known by letter to the 
Presiding Bishop such desire ; whereupon the Pre- 
siding Bishop shall communicate a copy of the same 
to each Bishop of this Church having jurisdiction ; 



t'xtte i. 



CANON 19. 



§XTi. 



Of Bishops. 

and, in case a majority of such Bishops shall return 
to the Presiding Bishop their written assent to such 
resignation, the same shall be deemed valid and 
final; and written information of the said resigna- Notice, 
tion shall at once be communicated by the Presiding 
Bishop to the Bishop and Diocese concerned, and to 
each Bishop of this Church. 

§ xvi. [1.] If during the recess of the General vacancy in 
Convention, and more than six months previous to Missionary 

•ji i j Jurisdiction 

its session, any vacancy arise, either by death, resig- during the 
nation, or other cause, in the office of any Mission- recess, 
ary Bishop of this Church (whether Domestic or 
Foreign), or in case the General Convention shall 
have, by concurrent resolution, given consent to 
the election during said recess of a Missionary 
Bishop for a designated Missionary Jurisdiction, 
the House of Bishops shall, on the written re- The House of 
quest of twelve members of the same, be convened meet^nd 
by the Presiding Bishop, or, in case of his death, by elect! 
the Bishop who, according to the rules of the House 
of Bishops, is to preside at the next General Conven- 
tion ; and thereupon may proceed to fill any and 
every such vacancy that may then exist, by electing 
a suitable person or persons to be a Bishop or 
Bishops of this Church, to exercise Episcopal func- 
tions within the district, country, territory, station, 
or jurisdiction, where such vacancy or vacancies may 
exist ; and in case of such election, they shall, by the 
Presiding Bishop, or by some person or persons spe- 
cially appointed, communicate the fact of such elec- ^g n of tol| 
tion to the Standing Committees of the Churches i U communi- 
the different Dioceses ; and each Standing Committee cated - 
that shall consent to the proposed consecration shall 
forward the evidence of such consent to the Presid- 
ing Bishop or Bishop as aforesaid. And if the 
major number of the Standing Committee shall con- 



CANON 2 0. 



Of a List of the Ministers of this Church. 



Majority of 
Standing 
Committees 
to consent. 



Majority of 
Bishops to 
consent. 



Consecration. 



Form of the 
consent of 
Standing 1 
Committees. 



Rights of Mis- 
sionary Bish- 
ops thus con- 
secrated. 



Subject to 
General Con- 
vention. 



Statement by 
Ministers in 
Parochial 
Reports. 



80 



sent to the proposed consecration, tire Presiding or 
other Bishop as aforesaid shall forward copies of the 
evidence of such consent to all the Bishops of this 
Church in the United States (excepting those whose 
resignation has been accepted) ; and if a majority of 
such Bishops consent to the consecration, the Pre- 
siding Bishop or Bishop aforesaid, with any two 
Bishops, or any three Bishops to whom he may com- 
municate the testimonials, may proceed to perform 
the same. 

[2.] The evidence of the consent of the different 
Standing Committees shall be in the form prescribed 
for the House of Deputies in General Convention ; 
and without the aforesaid requisites no consecration 
shall take place of any Missionary Bishop elected 
during the recess of the General Convention. 

[3.] Every Bishop elected and consecrated under 
this Section shall have the several functions, jurisdic- 
tion, powers, and rights granted by any Canon or 
Canons of this Church to Missionary Bishops, 
whether Domestic or Foreign, according as such 
Bishop shall be elected to be a Domestic or a 
Foreign Missionary Bishop ; and shall in all matters 
be subject to the Canons and authority of the Gene- 
ral Convention. 

§ xvii. This Canon shall take effect immediately. 
CANON 20. 

Of the Mode of Securing an Accurate View of the State 
of the Church. 
§ i. As a full and accurate view of the state of the 
Church, from time to time, is highly useful and 
necessary, it is hereby ordered that every Minister 
of this Church, or if the parish be vacant the War- 
dens, shall present, or cause to be delivered, on or 



t'xtit I. 



CANON 20. 



Mode of Securing an Accurate View, etc. 

before the first day of every Annual Convention, to 
the Bishop of the Diocese, or where there is no 
Bishop to the President of the Convention, a state- 
ment of the number of Baptisms, Confirmations, 
Marriages, and Funerals, and of the number of Com- 
municants in his Parish or Church ; also the state 
and condition of the Sunday Schools in his Parish; 
also of the amount of the Communion alms, the con- 
tributions for Missions, Diocesan, Domestic, and 
Foreign, for Parochial Schools, for Church purposes 
in general, and of all other matters that may throw 
light on the state of the same. And every Clergy- 
man, not regularly settled in any Parish or Church, cierg-ymen 
shall also report the occasional services he may have report^er^ t0 
performed; and, if he have performed no such ser- vices, 
vices, the causes or reasons which have prevented 
the same. And these reports, or such parts of them 
as the Bishop shall think fit, may be read in Conven- 
tion, and shall be entered on the journals thereof. 

§ ii. At every Annual Diocesan Convention, the Bishop's 
Bishop shall deliver an Address, stating the affairs Address> 
of the Diocese since the last meeting of the Conven- 
tion ; the names of the Churches which he has 
visited ; the number of persons confirmed ; the 
names of those who have been received as Candi- 
dates for Orders, and of those who have been or- 
dained, suspended, or degraded ; the changes by 
death, removal, or otherwise, which have taken place 
among the Clergy ; and in general, all matters tend- 
ing to throw light on the affairs of the Diocese ; 
which address shall be inserted on the journals. 

§ iii. At every General Convention, the journals Journais.etc, 
of the different Diocesan Conventions, since the last sented. 1 " 6 " 
General Convention, together with such other papers, 
viz., Episcopal charges, addresses, and pastoral let- 
ters, as may tend to throw light on the state of the 
Church in each Diocese, shall be presented to the 
House of Deputies. A Committee shall then be 



t'xtk i. 



CANON 20. 



§ iv. 



Of the Mode of Publishing the Bible. 



Committee 
on the state 
of the 
Church. 



Pastoral 
Letter, 



to be read to 
every Con- 
gregation. 



Duty of Dio- 
cesan Secre- 
taries. 



Diocesan Sec- 
retary to 
prepare Tri- 
ennial Report, 



and to for- 
ward same to 
Secretary of 
House of 
Deputies. 

82 



appointed to draw up a view of the state of the 
Church, and to make report to the House of Depu- 
ties ; which report, when agreed to by the said 
House, shall be sent to the House of Bishops, with 
the request that they will draw up, and cause to be 
published, a Pastoral Letter to the members of the 
Church. And it is hereby made the duty of every 
Clergyman having a pastoral charge, when any such 
Letter is published, to read the said Pastoral Letter 
to his congregation on some occasion of public 
worship. 

§ iv. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the 
Convention of every Diocese, or of the person or 
persons with whom the journals or other Ecclesias- 
tical papers are lodged, to forward to the House of 
Deputies, at every General Convention, on or before 
the first Monday of the session, the documents and 
papers specified in this Canon. 

§ v. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the 
Convention in every Diocese to prepare immediately 
after the adjournment of the meeting of the Diocesan 
Convention next preceding the Session of every Gen- 
eral Convention, a list of the Clergy canonically resi- 
dent therein and of persons admitted since the previous 
General Convention to the Order of Deacons or 
Priests and of persons deposed from the sacred minis- 
try and of clergy that have died, and also a condensed 
report and a tabular review of the state of the Church 
in said Diocese, comprising therein a summary of the 
statistics from the parochial reports, and from the 
Bishop's addresses, specifying as far as possible the 
capital and proceeds of the Episcopal fund and of 
the funds of all benevolent and missionary associa- 
tions of Churchmen within the Diocese, and promptly 
to forward the same to the Secretary of the House of 
Deputies for the purpose of aiding the Committee on 
the State of the Church, appointed by the House of 
Deputies in drafting their report. 



t'xtit I. 



CANON 22. 



Of the Standard Booh of Common Prayer. 

§ vi. All incorporated schools, all parochial schools, gkurch 

all academies and colleges, and all hospitals, asylums ieg-es, Hospi- 

for orphans or other children of either sex, maintained tals - etc -> to 

at the expense, or conducted under the management nuaiiy. 
of members of this Church, are expected to report 
annually to the Bishop of the Diocese at the annual 
Convention, such reports to be disposed of as the 
parochial reports ; and at every General Convention 

the tabular view of the state of the Church in each Tq ^ 

Dioeese, and the report of the Committee on the state eluded in Tri- 

of the Church shall include the results of such reports, enniai Report. 



CANON 21. 

Of the Mode of Publishing Authorised Editions of the 
Standard Bible of this Church. 

The Bishop of this Church in any Diocese, or Editions of 
where there is no Bishop the Standing Committee, is the Bible to 

. j , • . j! , • , P ..be corrected 

authorized to appoint, from time to time, some suit- k y the stand- 
able person or persons to compare and correct all ard - 
new editions of the Bible by the standard edition 
agreed upon by the General Convention, and a cer- certificate, 
tificate of their having been so compared and cor- 
rected shall be published with said book. 



CANON 22. 

Of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. 

§ i. The copy of the Book of Common Prayer and "What is the 
Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites prayer'Book. 
and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States of America, together with the Psalter or 
Psalms of David ; the Form of Making, Ordaining, 
and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, the 
Form of Consecration of a Church or Chapel, and an 
Office of Institution of Ministers, and Articles of 

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t'xttt I. 



CANOX 20. 



§ ii. iii. iv. v. 



Of the Standard Book of Common Prayer. 



All copies to 
conform to 
the Standard. 



Inaccuracies 
corrected. 



Copies of 
Standard 
to be sent to 
Dioceses. 



84 



Religion, set forth by the General Convention of this 
Church, in the year of our Lord 1892, and authenti- 
cated by the signatures of the presiding officers and 
secretaries of the two Houses of General Convention, 
and by the signatures of the members of the Joint 
Committee charged with the duty of preparing and 
submitting to the Convention a Standard Prayer 
Book, is hereby declared to be the Standard Book of 
Common Prayer of this Church. 

§ ii. All copies of the Book of Common Prayer to 
be hereafter made and published shall conform to this 
Standard, and shall agree therewith in paging, and, 
so far as it is possible, in all other matters of typo- 
graphical arrangement, except that the rubrics may be 
printed either in red or in black. The requirement 
of uniformity in paging shall apply only to that por- 
tion of the book which begins with the Order for the 
Daily Morning Prayer, and ends with the Psalter, and 
shall not extend to editions smaller than those known 
as 24mo, or to editions noted for music. 

§ iii. In case any typographical inaccuracy shall 
be found in the Standard Book of Common Prayer, 
its correction may be ordered by a joint resolution of 
any General Convention, and notice of such correc- 
tion shall be communicated by the Custodian to the 
Ecclesiastical Authority of each Diocese of this 
Church, and to actual publishers of the Book of Com- 
mon Prayer. 

§ iv. Copies of this folio Standard Book of Common 
Prayer, duly authenticated as in the case of the Stand- 
ard Book, shall be sent, when issued, to the Ecclesi- 
astical Authority of each Diocese or Jurisdiction in 
trust for the use thereof, and for reference and appeal 
in questions as to the authorized formularies of this 
Church. 

§ v. No copy or edition of the Book of Common 
Prayer shall be made, printed, published, or used as 



txtU I. 



CANON 24. 



Of wse o/7fo BooA of Common Prayer. 



of authority in this Church unless it contain the All copies 
authorization of the Custodian of the Standard Book ^holrized 
of Common Prayer, certifying that he or some person 
appointed by him has compared the said copy or edi- 
tion with the said Standard or a certified copy thereof, 
and that it conforms thereto. 

§ vi. The House of Bishops shall nominate a Custodian to 
person who, after confirmation by the House of be a PP° inted - 
Deputies, shall be appointed the Custodian of the 
Standard Book of Common Prayer and shall have 
charge of the same. He shall hold office until his 
successor is appointed, and any vacancy occurring 
during the recess of General Convention may be 
provisionally filled by appointment of the Presid- 
ing Bishop. It shall be the duty of the Eccle- 
siastical Authority of any Diocese or Jurisdiction unauthorized 
in which any unauthorized edition of the Book of editions ' 
Common Prayer or any part or parts thereof shall 
be published or circulated, to give public notice that 
the said edition is not of authority in this Church. 

§ vii. This Canon shall take effect immediately. 

CANON 23. 

Of the Due Celebration of Sundays. . 

All persons within this Church shall celebrate and ofaelra^s 
keep the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, in Day. 
hearing the word of God read and taught, in private 
and public prayer, in other exercises of devotion, 
and in acts of charity, using all godly and sober 
conversation. 

CANON 24. 

Of the Use of the Book of Common Prayer. 

§ i. Every Minister shall, before all sermons and The Prayer 
lectures, and on all other occasions of public worship, ^ to be 
use the Book of Common Prayer, as the same is or 
may be established by the authority of the General 

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titte I. 



CANON 24. 



Of the Use of the Book of Common Prayer. 



Convention of this Church ; and in performing such 
service, no other prayers shall be used than those 
prescribed by the said Book. 



Introduction 
of ceremonies 
or practices 
not ordained 
or authorized 
in the Book of 
Common 
Prayer. 



Specifications. 



The Minister 
to be ad- 
monished 



86 



§ ii. [1.] If any Bishop have reason to believe, or 
if complaint be made to him in writing by two or 
more of his Presbyters, that within his jurisdiction 
ceremonies or practices not ordained or authorized 
in the Book of Common Prayer, and setting forth or 
symbolizing erroneous or doubtful doctrines, have 
been introduced by any Minister during the celebra- 
tion of the Holy Communion (such as, 

a. The elevation of the Elements in the Holy 
Communion in such manner as to expose them to the 
view of the people as objects toward which adora- 
tion is to be made. 

b. Any act of adoration of or toward the Elements 
in the Holy Communion, such as bowings, prostra- 
tions, or genuflections ; and 

e. All other like acts not authorized by the Ru- 
brics of the Book of Common Prayer :) 

It shall be the duty of such Bishop to summon the 
Standing Committee as his Council of Advice, and 
with them to investigate the matter. 

[2.] If, after investigation, it shall appear to the 
Bishop and Standing Committee that ceremonies or 
practices not ordained or authorized as aforesaid, and 
setting forth or symbolizing erroneous or doubtful 
doctrines, have in fact been introduced as aforesaid, 
it shall be the duty of the Bishop, by instrument of 
writing under his hand, to admonish the Minister so 
offending to discontinue such practices or ceremonies; 
and if the Minister shall disregard such admonition, 



t'xtk i. 



CANON 25. 



Of Church Music. 

it shall be the duty of the Standing Committee to and tried. 

cause him to be tried for a breach of his ordination 

vow. 

Provided, That nothing herein contained shall Proviso. . 
prevent the presentment, trial, and punishment of 
any Minister under the provisions of Title II., Canon 
2, Section i. of the Digest. 

T3.1 In all investigations under the provisions of The accused 

, . A , ai-- • , i Minister to b< 

this Canon, the Minister whose acts or practices are notified, 
the subject-matter of the investigation, shall be noti- 
fied, and have opportunity to be heard in his defence. 
The charges preferred, and the findings of the Bishop 

and Standing' Committee, shall be in writing, and a Record to be 

. . kept 
record shall be kept of the proceedings in the case. 



CANON 25. 

Of Church Music. 

§ i. The Hymns which are set forth by authority, Hymns and 
and Anthems in the words of Holy Scripture, are al- which may be 
lowed to be sung in all Congregations of this Church sun £- 
before and after Morning and Evening Prayer, and 
also before and after sermons, at the discretion 
of the Minister, whose duty it shall be, by stand- 
ing directions, or from time to time, to appoint 
such, authorized Hymns, or Anthems as are to be 
sung. 

§ ii. It shall be the duty of every Minister of this The Minister 

m ■, . i i • i r> to & ive order 

Church, with such assistance as he may see tit to concerning 

c i -n i • j. i th© tunes. 

employ irom persons skilled m music, to give order 
concerning the tunes to be sung at any time in his 

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CANON 2 6. 



§i-, n. 



Of the Consecration of Churches. 

Church, and especially it shall be his duty to sup- 
press all light and unseemly music, and all indecency 
and irreverence in the performance by which vain 
and ungodly persons profane the service of the 
sanctuary. 



Building' and 
ground to be 
paid for be- 
fore conse- 
cration. 



Proviso. 



Bishop's con- 
sent neces- 
sary to the in- 
cumbrance or 
alienation of a 
consecrated 
church. 



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CANON 26. 

Of the Consecration of Churches. 

§ i. No Church or Chapel shall be consecrated 
until the Bishop shall have been sufficiently certified 
that the building and ground on which it is erected 
have been fully paid for, and are free from lien or 
other incumbrance ; and also that such building and 
ground are secured, by the terms of the devise, or 
deed, or subscription by which they are given, from 
the danger of alienation, either in whole or in part, 
from those who profess and practise the doctrine, 
discipline, and worship of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in the United States of America, except in 
the cases provided for in Sections ii. and iii. of this 
Canon : Provided, that this shall not preclude the 
alienation of lots for burial in vaults or otherwise, 
nor apply to land owned by the Church corporation 
and not necessary for religious uses. 

§ ii. It shall not be lawful for any Vestry, Trus- 
tees, or other body authorized by law of any State or 
Territory, to hold property for any Diocese, Parish, 
or Congregation, to incumber or alienate any conse- 
crated Church or Chapel without the previous con- 
sent of the Bishop, acting with the advice and 
consent of the Standing Committee of the Diocese 



I. CANON 26. §iii. 



Of the Consecration of Churches. 



in which such Church or Chapel be situated : Pro- 
vided, that this section shall not he operative in any 
State with the laws of which, relating to the title 
and holding of property by religious corporations, 
the same may conflict. 

§ iii. No consecrated Church or Chapel shall be consent 
removed, taken down, or otherwise disposed of for other in^ 7 " 
any "unhallowed, worldly, or common use," without 
the previous consent of the Bishop, acting with the 
advice and consent of the Standing Committee of 
the Diocese in which such Church or Chapel may be 
situate. 



stances. 



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t'xth II. 



CANON 1. 



§ i, ii, iii- 



title II. 

OF DISCIPLINE. 



CANON 1. 

Of Amenability and Citations. 

To whom S i. Every Minister shall be amenable, for of- 

Mmisters are ° . . . ^ . ' . 

amenable. lences committed by him, to the Jiishop, and if there 

be no Bishop to the Clerical members of the Stand- 
ing Committee, of the Diocese in which he is canoni- 
cally resident at the time of the charge. 

§ ii. Unless a Diocesan Convention shall otherwise 
Mode of serv- provide, a citation to any Minister to appear, at a 
mg ci a ions. cer ^ n time an( j place, for the trial of an offence, 
shall be deemed to be duly served upon him if a 
copy thereof be left at his last place of abode within 
the United States, sixty days before the day of ap- 
pearance named therein ; and in case such Minister 
has departed from the United States, by also publish- 
ing, six months before the said day of appearance, a 
copy of such citation in some newspaper printed at 
the seat of government of the State in which the 
Minister is cited to appear. 

of notices in § iii. A notice or citation required by any Canon 
of this Church, when no other mode of service is 
provided, may be served by leaving a copy with the 
party, or at his last place of abode within the United 
States ; and if he shall have left the United States, 

90 



t'xtU II. 



CANON 2. 



Of Offences for which Ministers may he Tried, etc. 

by also publishing a copy thereof in some newspaper 
printed at the seat of government of the State or 
Territory where such party last resided. 

§ iv. It is hereby declared to be the duty of all Duty to give 
members of this Church to attend and give evidence, Evidence - 
when duly summoned to do so, in any Ecclesiastical 
trial or investigation under the authority of this 
Church. 

§ v. In the case of a Clergyman convicted in any Of cases of 
court of record, of any crime or misdemeanor involv- courtsof n m 
ing immorality, or against whom a judgment has record - 
been recorded in any court of record, in a cause in- 
volving immorality, it shall be the duty of the Stand- 
ing Committee of the Diocese or Jurisdiction to 
which he canonically belongs, to institute an inquiry 
into the matter. If, in their judgment, there is 
sufficient reason for further proceedings, it shall be 
their duty to present him, or to see that he be pre- 
sented, for trial. 



CANON 2. 

Of Offences for which Ministers may be Tried and 
Punished. 

§ i. Every Minister of this Church shall be liable Punishable 

offences 

to presentment and trial for the following offences, 
viz. : 

[1.] Crime or immorality. 

[2.] Holding and teaching publicly or privately, 
and advisedly, any doctrine contrary to that held by 

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titte II. 



CANON 2. 



Of Offences for which Ministers may be Tried, etc. 

the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States of America. 

[3.] Violation of the Constitution or Canons of 
the General Convention. 

[4.] Violation of the Constitution or Canons of 
the Diocese to which he belongs. 

[5.] Any act which involves a breach of his Ordi- 
nation vows. 

[6.] And for conduct unbecoming a Clergyman of 
this Church. 

And, on being found guilty, he shall be admon- 
ished, suspended, or degraded, according to the 
Canons of the Diocese in which the trial takes 
place, until otherwise provided for by the General 
Convention. 



Proceedings § ii. If a Minister of this Church shall be accused, 

on public m. ii. i! i i ■ n 

rumor. by public rumor, of habitually neglecting the exer- 

cise of the ministerial office without lawful cause, or 
of living in the habitual disuse of public worship or 
of the Holy Eucharist according to the Offices of this 
Church, or of being guilty of any or either of the 
offences enumerated in Section i., it shall be the duty 
of the Bishop, or, if there be no Bishop, of the 
Clerical members of the Standing Committee, to see 
that an inquiry be instituted as to the truth of such 
public rumor. And, in case of the individual being 
proceeded against and convicted according to such 
rules or process as may be provided by the Conven- 

Punishments. tions of the respective Dioceses, he shall be admon- 
ished, suspended, or deposed, as the nature of the 
case may require, in conformity with their respective 
Constitutions and Canons. 



t'xtU II. 



CANON 3. 



§ i-, ii. 



CANON 3. 

Of a Clergyman in one Diocese or Missionary District 
chargeable with Misdemeanor in another. 

§ i. If a Clergyman of this Church, belonging to offence com- 
any Diocese or Missionary District, shall have con- different 1 & 
ducted himself in any other Diocese or Missionary Dlocese - 
District in such a way as to be liable to presentment 
under the provisions of Title II., Canon 2, the 
Ecclesiastical Authority thereof shall give notice 
of the same to the Ecclesiastical Authority where 
he is canonically resident, exhibiting, with the infor- 
mation given, reasonable ground for presuming its 
correctness. If the Ecclesiastical Authority, when Notice to au- 
thus notified, shall omit, for the space of three offender's 
months, to proceed against the offending Clergyman, Dlocese - 
or shall request the Ecclesiastical Authority of the 
Diocese or Missionary District in which the offence 
or offences are alleged to have been committed, to 
proceed against him, it shall be within the power of 
the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese or Mis- 
sionary District within which the offence or offences 
are alleged to have been committed, to institute 
proceedings according to the mode provided by the Proceedings 
Convention thereof ; and the decision given shall be act neeleCt t0 
conclusive. 

§ ii. If a Clergyman shall come temporarily into Bishop may ad- 

T^- t i • , monish and 

any Diocese, under the imputation of having else- forbid offi- 
where been guilty of any crime or misdemeanor, by ciatmg - 
violation of the Canons or otherwise, or if any 
Clergyman, while sojourning in any Diocese, shall 
misbehave in any of these respects, the Bishop, 

93 



Of the Dissolution of a Pastoral Connection. 



Notice of 
prohibition. 



Prohibition, 
how long to 
continue. 



Applicable to 
Clergymen 
ordained in 
foreign coun- 
tries. 

Notice of 
prohibition. 



upon probable cause, may admonish such Clergy- 
man, and forbid him to officiate in said Diocese. 
And if, after such prohibition, the said Clergyman 
so officiate, the Bishop shall give notice to all the 
Clergy and Congregations in said Diocese, that the 
officiating of the said Clergyman is, under any and 
all circumstances, prohibited; and like notice shall 
be given to the Bishop, or if there be no Bishop, 
to the Standing Committee, of the Diocese to which 
the said Clergyman belongs. And such prohibition 
shall continue in force until the Bishop of the 
first-named Diocese be satisfied of the innocence of 
the said Clergyman, or until he be acquitted on trial. 

§ iii. The provisions of the last Section shall 
apply to Clergymen ordained in foreign countries 
by Bishops in communion with this Church : Pro- 
vided, that in such case notice of the prohibition 
shall be given to the Bishop under whose jurisdiction 
the Clergyman shall appear to have last been, and 
also to all the Bishops exercising jurisdiction in this 
Church. 



Resignation 
or removal of 
a Rector. 



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CANON 4. 

Of Differences between Ministers and their Congrega- 
tions, and of the Dissolution of a Pastoral Connection. 

§ i. A Rector, canonically elected and in charge, 
or an Instituted Minister, may not resign his Parish 
without consent of the said Parish or its Vestry 
(if the Vestry be authorized to act in the premises) ; 
nor may such Rector or Minister be removed there- 
from by said Parish or Vestry against his will, 
except as hereinafter provided. 



txtk ii. 



CANON 4. 



Of the Dissolution of a Pastoral Connection. 

§ ii. In case any urgent reason or reasons should Separation 
occasion a wish in a Rector or Minister as afore- tion of Pas- 
said, or in the Parish committed to his charge, to ^ connec " 
bring about a separation and a dissolution of all 
pastoral relation between such Minister and Parish, 
and the parties be not agreed in respect of such 
separation and dissolution, notice of such desire 
and disagreement may be given by either party to 
the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese or 
Missionary Jurisdiction, in writing. And in case 
of any difference between the Minister and Parish Differences, 
or Vestry as aforesaid, which may not be satisfac- settled, 
torily settled by the godly judgment of the Bishop 
alone, or which he may decline to consider without 
counsel, the Bishop (or if the Diocese be vacant, 
any Bishop selected by the Ecclesiastical Authority), 
acting with the advice and consent of the Standing 
Committee of the Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction, 
or with that of the Presbyters only of said Standing 
Committee (if both parties shall assent to such 
limitation in writing), shall be the ultimate arbiter penalties for 
and judge ; and refusal to accept and comply with comply with 
the arbitration and judgment on the part of the arbitration - 
Minister aforesaid, shall not work a continuance of 
lawful and canonical Rectorship or settlement 
beyond the date fixed, conditionally or otherwise, 
for its termination by such arbitration and judgment, 
should such termination be recommended and re- 
quired ; but such pastoral connection shall, unless 
otherwise agreed by the parties, cease and terminate 
as therein required. But such refusal shall subject 
the Minister so refusing to inhibition by the Bishop 
aforesaid from all ministerial offices and functions 

95 



txtk II. 



CANON 5. 



Of Renunciation of the Ministry. 



Record of 
regular disso- 
lution. 



When not 
obligatory. 



Renunciation 
when no 
Ecclesiastical 
proceeding is 
pending. 



06 



within the Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction ; and 
such refusal on the part of a Parish shall disqualify 
it from representation in the Convention of the 
Diocese until it shall have been declared by the 
Ecclesiastical Authority to have given satisfactory 
guaranties for the acceptance of and compliance 
with the arbitration and judgment. 

§ iii. In case of the regular and canonical dissolu- 
tion of the connection between a Minister and his 
congregation, the Bishop, or if there be no Bishop, 
the Standing Committee, shall direct the Secretary 
of the Convention to record the same. But if the 
dissolution of the connection between a Minister 
and his Congregation be not regular or canonical, 
the Bishop or Standing Committee shall lay the 
same before the Convention of the Diocese, in order 
that the above-mentioned penalties may take effect. 

§ iv. This Canon shall not be in force in any 
Diocese which has made, or shall hereafter make, 
provision by Canon upon this subject, nor in any 
Diocese with whose laws or charters it may inter- 
fere. 

CANON 5. 

Of Renunciation of the Ministry. 

§ i. If any Minister of this Church, against 
whom there is no ecclesiastical proceeding insti- 
tuted, shall declare, in writing, to the Ecclesiastical 
Authority of the Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction 
to which he belongs, his renunciation of the Ministry 
of this Church, it shall be the duty of the Ecclesi- 



t'xtit II. 



CANON 25. 



§ii., iii. 



Of Renunciation of the Ministry. 



astical Authority to record the declaration so made ; 
and thereupon it shall be the duty of the Bishop, 
or, if there be no Bishop of the Diocese or Mission- 
ary Jurisdiction, of any Bishop who, being requested 
by the Standing Committee, shall consent to act in 
the matter, to depose such person from the Ministry, Bishop to 
and to pronounce and record, in the presence of two de P° se - 
or more Clergymen, that the person so declaring has 
been deposed from the Ministry of this Church: 
Provided, however, that if the Bishop shall be satis- proviso, 
fied that the person so declaring is not amenable 
for any canonical offence, and that his renunciation 
of the Ministry is not occasioned by foregoing mis- 
conduct or irregularity, but is voluntary and for 
causes, assigned or known, which do not affect his 
moral character, he shall so declare in pronouncing 
and recording said deposition, and shall, if desired, 
give a certificate to this effect to the person so 
deposed ; and he shall also give due notice of such Notice of 
deposition from the Ministry to the Ecclesiastical deposition - 
Authority of every Diocese and Missionary Jurisdic- 
tion of this Church, in the form in which the same 
is recorded. 

§ ii. If the Ecclesiastical Authority shall have Action may 
reason to believe that the person so declaring has f e r |^ spended 
acted hastily and unadvisedly, action on such declar- 
ation may be postponed for the space of not more 
than six months, during which time such person may 
withdraw his application. 

§ iii. If the Ecclesiastical Authority, to whom Renunciation 
such declaration is made, shall have ground to sup- ^pr^ent- 1 " 7 

ment. 97 



months. 



t'xttt II. 



CANON 6. 



§i- 



Abandonment by a Presbyter or Deacon. 



pose that the person making the same is liable to 
presentment for any canonical offence, such person 
may, in the discretion of the said Ecclesiastical Au- 
thority, be put upon trial for such offence, notwith- 
standing such declaration of renunciation of the 
Ministry. 



Abandonment 
without re- 
nunciation. 



Certificate. 



CANON 6. 

Of the Abandonment of the Communion of this Church 
by a Presbyter or Deacon. 

§ i. If any Presbyter or Deacon shall, without 
availing himself of the provisions of Canon 5 of this 
Title, abandon the Communion of this Church, by 
an open renunciation of the doctrine, discipline, or 
worship of this Church, or by a formal admission 
into any religious body not in communion with the 
same, or in any other way, it shall be the duty of 
the Standing Committee of the Diocese to make cer- 
tificate of the fact to the Bishop of the Diocese, or, 
if there be no Bishop, to the Bishop of an adjacent 
Diocese; which certificate shall be recorded, and 
shall be taken and deemed by the Ecclesiastical Au- 
thority as equivalent to a renunciation of the Minis- 
try by the Minister himself, and the said Bishop may 
then proceed to suspend for six months the Pres- 
byter or Deacon so certified as abandoning the Com- 
munion of this Church. Notice shall be given to 
the said Minister by the said Bishop receiving the 
certificate, that, unless he shall within six months 
make declaration that the facts alleged in said cer- 
tificate are false, he will be deposed from the Min- 
istry of this Church. 



98 



Clergyman absenting himself from his Diocese. 



§ ii. And if such declaration be not made within Deposition 

&ft©r sis 

six months, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the months. 
Bishop to depose said Minister from the Ministry, 
and to pronounce and record, in the presence of two 
or more Presbyters, that he has been so deposed: 
Provided, nevertheless, that if the Minister so re- Proviso, of 

retraction 

nouncing shall transmit to the Bishop receiving the 
certificate a retraction of the acts or declarations 
constituting his offence, the Bishop may at his dis- 
cretion abstain from any further proceedings. 



CANON 7. 

Of a Clergyman absenting himself from his Diocese. 

When a Clergyman has been absent from the Absence for 
Diocese to which he belongs during five years with- -w^n^ound 
out reasons satisfactory to the Bishop thereof, he of sus P ension - 
shall be required by the Bishop to declare the cause 
or causes thereof in writing ; and if he refuse to 
give his reasons, or if they be deemed insufficient by 
the Bishop, the Bishop may, with the advice and 
consent of the Clerical members of the Standing 
Committee, suspend him from the Ministry; which 
suspension shall continue until he shall give, in writ- Duration of 

• » sontonco 

ing, sufficient reasons for his absence ; or until he 

shall renew his residence in his Diocese ; or until 

he shall renounce the Ministry according to Canon 5 

of this Title. In the case of such suspension as 

above provided for, it shall be the duty of the Bishop Notice to be 

to give notice thereof to every Bishop of this Church, eiven- 

and to the Standing Committee of every Diocese 

wherein there is no Bishop. 

09 



t'xtk II. 



CANON 8. 



§i- 



CANON 8. 

Of the Abandonment of the Communion of the Church 
by a Bishop. 

Abandonment If any Bishop, without availing himself of the 
ion by a Un ~ provisions of Title I., Canon 15, Section xvi., aban- 
Bishop. ( j on t j ie Communion of this Church, either by an 

open renunciation of the doctrine, discipline, and 
worship of the Church, or by a formal admission into 
any religious body not in communion with the same, 
or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the Standing 
Committee of the Diocese of said Bishop to make 
certificate of the fact to the Presiding Bishop, to- 
gether with a statement of the acts or declarations 
which prove such abandonment, which certificate 
shall be recorded by the Presiding Bishop, and the 
Presiding Bishop, with the consent of the three 
Bishops next in seniority, shall then suspend said 
Bishop from the exercise of his office and ministry 
until such time as the House of Bishops shall con- 
sent or refuse to consent to his deposition ; and in 
case the Bishop so abandoning the Communion of 
the Church be the senior Bishop, the Bishop next 
in the order of seniority shall be deemed to be 
and shall act as the Presiding Bishop under this 
Canon. 

Notice to be Notice shall then be given to said Bishop by the 
Bishop receiving the certificate, that unless he shall, 
within six months, make declaration that the facts 
alleged in said certificate are false, and shall demand a 
trial, he will be deposed from the Ministry. And if 
such declaration be not made within six months, as 

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t'xtU II. 



CANON 9. 



§i- 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Presiding Bishop 

to convene the House of Bishops, and if a majority of 

the whole number of Bishops entitled at the time to 

seats in the House of Bishops, shall at such meeting 

give their consent, the said Presiding Bishop, or the 

senior Bishop present, shall proceed to depose from Deposition. 

the Ministry the Bishop so certified as abandoning, 

and to pronounce and record in the presence of two 

or more Bishops, that he has been so deposed : Pro- Proviso. 

vided, nevertheless, that if the Bishop so certified as 

abandoning, shall transmit to the Presiding Bishop 

a retraction of the acts or declarations constituting 

his offence, the Bishop may at his discretion abstain 

from any further proceedings. 



CANON 9. 

Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

§ i. Any Bishop of this Church may be presented Offences for 
for trial on charges for the following offences, viz. : Bishop may 
1. Crime or immorality. 2. Holding and teaching be tned - 
publicly, or privately and advisedly, any doctrine 
contrary to that held by the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in the United States. 3. Violation of the 
Constitution or Canons of the General Convention. 
4. Violation of the Constitution or Canons of the 
Diocese to which he belongs. 5. Any act which 
involves a breach of his Ordination or Consecration 
vows. 

§ ii. [1.] The proceedings shall commence by charges in 
charges in writing ; and, except when the charge is wrltin §'- 

101 



Zxtk II. 



CANON 9. 



§ii. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 



By whom to 
be signed. 



Action on 
rumors. 



If advised by- 
two Bishops. 



Accusers may 
choose a lay 
advocate and 
agent. 



102 



holding and teaching doctrine contrary to that held 
by this Church, shall be signed by either 

Five male communicants of this Church, in good 
standing, belonging to the Diocese of the accused, 
of whom two at least must be Presbyters ; or, 

By seven male communicants of this Church, in 
good standing, of whom two at least shall be Pres- 
byters, and three of which seven shall belong to 
the Diocese of the accused. 

[2.] Whenever a Bishop of this Church shall 
have reason to believe that there are in circulation 
rumors, reports, or charges affecting his moral or 
religious character, he may, if he please, acting in 
conformity with the written advice and consent of 
any two of his brother Bishops whom he may 
select, demand of the Presiding Bishop of the 
House of Bishops, or if he be the Bishop affected 
by such rumors, or if he be related to him within 
the degrees hereinafter mentioned, then to the 
Bishop next in seniority not so related, to convene 
a Board of Inquiry in the mode hereinafter set 
forth, to investigate such rumors, reports, and 
charges, and to proceed, in all respects, according to 
the provisions of this Canon, as if charges had been 
formally made in either of the two modes first men- 
tioned in this Section. 

[3.] Whenever charges are formally made in 
either of the modes first above mentioned, the ac- 
cusers may, if they choose, select a lay communicant 
of this Church, of the profession of the law, to act 
as their adviser, advocate, and agent, in preparing 
the accusation, proofs, etc., until such time as a 
Board of Inquiry is convened in such manner as is 



t'xtk II. 



CANON 9. 



§ iii-, iv. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

hereinafter provided for ; or they may prepare such 
charges themselves, without regard to any particular 
form ; and, in either case, the grounds of accusation Reasonable 

i n i • i l, j_ • i. s j.- certainty of 

must be set forth with reasonable certainty ot time, charges, 
place, and circumstance. 

§ iii. The charges, having been prepared in either To whom to 

be delivered. 

of the modes first above mentioned, shall then be 
delivered to the Presiding Bishop, if he be not the 
accused, nor related to the accused in any degree 
mentioned hereinafter in this Canon ; in either of 
which cases the charges shall be delivered to the 
next Bishop in seniority not so related. 

§ iv. A Board for making a preliminary inquiry Board of 
into charges thus preferred, shall be constituted as Inqmry - 
follows, whenever such Board shall be necessary, 
viz. : 

[1.] The Presiding Bishop, or senior Bishop, as 
the case may be, to whom such charges are delivered, 
shall take the list of Clerical and Lay Deputies to 
the last General Convention that was held before 
such charges were presented, and from that list shall 
choose by lot two Presbyters and two Laymen from 
the deputation of the Diocese of the accused, 
and two Presbyters and two Laymen from each of 
the respective deputations of the three Dioceses 
adjoining that of the accused; and if there be not 
three adjoining, of the three nearest thereto ; and if 
more than three Dioceses adjoin that of the accused, 
those three that have the largest number of canoni- 
cally resident Presbyters in them shall be accounted 
adjoining, for the purposes of this Canon ; and the 
sixteen individuals thus selected by lot shall consti- 

103 



tm ii. 



CANON 9. 



§iv. 



Notice to 
members. 



Place of 
meeting. 

Copy of 
charges to 
be sent. 



Organization 
of the Board. 



Office of 
Church Ad- 
vocate. 



Sittings to 
be private. 



Duty of the 
Board. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

tute the Board of Inquiry, a majority of whom shall 
form a quorum for doing business. 

[2.] The Presiding Bishop, or next in seniority, 
as the case may be, immediately after thus selecting 
by lot the Board of Inquiry, shall give notice thereof 
to each member of said Board, and direct him to 
attend, at a time and place designated by him, and 
organize the Board ; and it shall be the duty of 
each member so to attend. The place must be 
within the Diocese of the accused. The Presiding 
Bishop shall, at the same time, send a copy of the 
charges to the senior Presbyter of those thus selected 
by lot from the four Dioceses. 

[3.] On assembling, the Board shall organize by 
choosing from among themselves a President and 
Secretary, and shall also appoint a Church Advocate, 
who must be a lay communicant of this Church, and 
of the profession of the law, and who thenceforward 
shall, in all stages of the proceedings, if a trial be 
ordered, represent the Church, and be the party on 
the one hand, while the accused is the party on the 
other. The sittings of the Board shall be private ; 
the Church Advocate shall not attend as prosecuting 
counsel, but shall be at all times at hand and in 
readiness to give his advice in all questions sub- 
mitted to him by the Board. 

[4.] In conducting the investigation, the Board 
shall hear the accusations, and such proof as the 
accusers may produce, and shall determine whether, 
upon matters of law and of fact, as presented to 
them, there is sufficient ground to put the accused 
Bishop upon his trial ; and in such investigation, as 
well as in all cases of trial by an Ecclesiastical Court 



titU II. 



CANON 9. 



§ iv. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

now authorized, or hereafter to be authorized, by the 
Constitution or Canons of the General Convention, 
the laws of the State in which such investigation or 
trial is had, so far as they relate to the law of evi- 
dence, shall be adopted and taken as the rules by 
which the said Board or Court shall be governed. 
If a majority of the Board present on such investi- 
gation shall be of opinion that there are sufficient 
grounds to put the accused Bishop upon his trial, 
they shall direct the Church Advocate to prepare a 
presentment, to be signed by such of the Board as 
agree thereto ; and to that end shall place in his 
hands all the charges, together with the testimony 
that has been laid before the Board. 

[5.] The Board shall then direct the Church 
Advocate to transmit to the Bishop from whom they 
received the charges, the presentment thus signed ; 
and shall cause him also, without delay, to send to 
the accused Bishop a copy of the same, certified by 
the Church Advocate to be correct. 

[6.] If a majority of the Board present shall be of 
opinion that there is not sufficient ground to put 
the accused Bishop upon his trial, in such case the 
charges, together with a certificate of the President 
of the Board of its refusal to make a presentment, 
shall be sent to the Secretary of the House of 
Bishops, to be deposited among the archives of that 
House. And no proceedings shall thereafter be had 
by way of presentment on such charges, except 
upon the affidavit of a respectable communicant of 
the Church of the discovery of new testimony as to 
the facts charged, and setting forth what such 
testimony is. 



Rules of evi- 
dence those of 
the State in 
which the 
trial is had. 



Presentment. 



Copies of pre- 
sentment to 
be sent. 



Refusal to 
present. 



Certificate of 
refusal. 



Bar to future 
presentment. 

Exception. 



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tm ii. 



CANON 9. 



Limitation 
of time. 



Conviction in 
a State court. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

[7.] No presentment shall be found in any case, 
unless the alleged offence shall have been committed 
within five years next before the day on which the 
charges were delivered to the Presiding or senior 
Bishop. But if the accused shall have been convicted 
of the alleged offence in a State court, notwith- 
standing five years may have elapsed since its 
commission, a presentment may be founded on 
charges delivered to the Presiding or senior Bishop, 
at any time within one year after such convic- 
tion. 



Notice to ac- 
cused upon 
presentment, 



and to Church 
Advocate. 



Formation of 
the Court. 



106 



§ v. [1.] When a presentment has been made 
by the Board of Inquiry, or a majority thereof, to 
the Bishop from whom they receive the charges, 
it shall be the duty of such Bishop forthwith to 
give to the accused written notice to attend, at some 
place not more than one hundred miles from the 
place of residence of the accused Bishop, and at 
some time not less than twenty days after the time 
of serving such notice, either personally, or by 
some agent authorized by him in writing to act for 
him in the premises, for the purpose of selecting 
the Bishops who shall form the Court for the trial 
of the said accused Bishop upon the said present- 
ment. He shall also give notice to the Church 
Advocate of the time and place appointed for such 
selection. 

[2.] At the time and place appointed in the 
notices, the Bishop who has given the notices shall 
attend ; and, in the presence of the accused Bishop, 
or of his agent authorized as aforesaid, and also in 
the presence of the Church Advocate, or of such 



tm ii. 



CANON 9. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

person or persons as may attend in his behalf, or, if 
no person shall attend on behalf of one or both, of 
two Presbyters named by himself, the said Bishop 
shall cause to be placed in a vessel the names of all 
the Bishops of this Church entitled to seats in the 
House of Bishops, then being within the territory 
of the United States, except the accused and those 
Bishops who may be related to him either by con- 
sanguinity or affinity, in the direct ascending or 
descending line, or as brother, uncle, or nephew. 
He shall then cause eleven of the said names to be Eleven names 
drawn. The names so drawn shall be entered upon to be drawn- 
a list as they are drawn, and the accused, or his 
agent, may strike off the list one name, and the 
said Church Advocate, or his agent, another name, Eleven re- 
and so on alternately, until the number be reduced feven. t0 
to seven. If it shall happen that either party shall 
neglect or refuse to strike, then the Bishop who has 
given the notices shall reduce the number to seven 
by striking off so many of the last drawn names as 
will reduce the list to that number. The seven 
Bishops whose names remain, or a majority of 
them, when assembled, shall constitute the Court 
for the trial of the accused upon the present- 
ment. 

[3.] The Court having been thus constituted, the Notice to 
Bishop to whom the presentment was made shall tSe^ourt° f 
immediately communicate to each Bishop who has 
thus been by lot designated as one of the triers, 
the fact that he is a member of the Court. He 
shall also appoint a time and place for the assem- Appointment 
bling of the Court. The time shall not be less than pia C me and 
two nor more than six calendar months from the 

107 



Z'xtU II. 



CANON 9. 



§ vi. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 



Certified 
copies. 

Summons of 
the accused. 



Power to 
summon 
witnesses. 



day on which the notice should arrive at the most 
distant Diocese, in the ordinary course of the public 
mail. The place shall be within the Diocese or 
Missionary field of the accused Bishop, unless 
where the same may be of such difficult access, in 
the judgment of the Presiding or senior Bishop, 
that reasonable convenience may require the ap- 
pointment of another location. And the said senior 
Bishop shall cause the Church Advocate to send 
certified copies of the said presentment to all the 
Bishops who constitute the Court. 

[4.] The Bishop to whom the presentment has 
been made shall also immediately communicate to 
the accused the names of the members of the Court, 
and inform him of the time and place appointed 
for its meeting, and summon him then and there to 
appear and answer. He, or any other Bishop of this 
Church having charge of a Diocese, shall have 
power, until the Court assembles, upon the applica- 
tion of either the Church Advocate or the accused, 
to issue a summons for witnesses. 



Course of § V1 - The Bishops who constitute the Court, or 

the'trfa^ 111 ^ ° n a ma j or ^y of them, having assembled according to 
the notice given them, which notice it is hereby 
made their dut3 r to obey, shall proceed as follows, 
viz. : 

[1.] They shall elect a President out of their 
own number, and appoint a Presbyter of the Church 
as Clerk, and, if necessary, another Presbyter as 
_ Assistant Clerk : and when thus organized, the 
President shall direct the Clerk to call the names 
of the Church Advocate and the accused ; and if 

108 



President. 



Clerk. 



txtk II. 



CANON 9. 



§ vi. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 



both appear, lie shall then cause the Clerk to read 
the presentment which was delivered to the Presiding 
or senior Bishop, whose duty it is hereby made to 
deliver the same to the Court upon its organization. 

[2.] The accused shall then be called upon by 
the Court to say whether he is guilty or not guilty 
of the offence or offences charged against him, and 
his plea shall be duly recorded ; and on his neglect 
or. refusal to plead, the plea of not guilty shall be 
entered for him, and the trial shall proceed: Provided, 
that, for sufficient cause, the Court may adjourn 
from time to time : and Provided, also, that the 
accused shall, at all times during the trial, have 
liberty to be present, and in due time and order 
produce his testimony, and to make his defence. 

[3.] If the accused neglect or refuse to appear in 
person, according to the notice served on him as 
aforesaid, except for some reasonable cause to be 
allowed by the Court, they shall proceed to pro- 
nounce him in contumacy, and notify him that 
sentence of suspension or degradation will be pro- 
nounced against him by the Court at the expiation 
of three months, unless within that time he tender 
himself ready, and accordingly appear and take 
his trial on the presentment. But if the accused 
shall not tender himself before the expiration of 
the said three months, sentence of suspension or 
degradation from the Ministry may be pronounced 
against him by the Court. 

[4.] The accused being present, and the trial 
proceeding, it shall be conducted according to the 
principles of the common law, as the same are 
generally administered in the United States; nor 



Reading the 
presentment. 



The call to 
plead. 



Provisos. 



Non-appear- 
ance. 



Contumacy. 



Three months' 
grace to 
appear. 



The common 
law the rule of 
proceeding. 



109 



tm ii. 



CANON 9. 



§ vi. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

shall any testimony be received at the trial, except 
from witnesses who have signed a declaration in the 
following words, to be read aloud before the wit- 
ness testifies, and to be filed with the records of the 
Court. 



Declaration of 
witness, in 
writing-, be- 
fore testifying-. 



Depositions 
when attend- 
ance cannot 
be procured. 



Commissary. 



Cross- 
examination. 



110 



I, A. B., a witness summoned to testify on the trial of a present- 
ment against the Eight Kev. , a Bishop of the Protestant 

Episcopal Church in the United States, now pending, do most sol- 
emnly call God to witness that the evidence I am about to give 
shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; so 
help me God ! 

And if it be necessary to take the testimony of 
an absent witness on a commission, such testimony 
shall be pi'eceded by a similar written declaration of 
the witness, which shall be filed and transmitted 
with his or her deposition to the Court. The testi- 
mony of each witness shall be reduced to writing. 
And in case there is ground to suppose that the 
attendance of any witness on the trial cannot be 
obtained, it shall be lawful for either party to apply 
to the Court, if in session, or if not to any member 
thereof, who shall thereupon appoint a commissary 
to take the deposition of such witness ; and such 
party so desiring to take the deposition shall give to 
the other party reasonable notice of the time and 
place of taking such deposition, accompanying such 
notice with the interrogatories to be propounded to 
the witness ; whereupon it shall be lawful for the 
other party, within six days after such notice, to 
propound cross-interrogatories ; and such interroga- 
tories and cross-interrogatories, if any be propounded, 
shall be sent to the commissary, who shall thereupon 
proceed to take the testimony of such witness, upon 



titk ii. 



CANON 9. 



§ vi. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

oath or affirmation, and transmit it under seal to the 
Court. But no deposition shall be read at the trial, 
unless the Court have reasonable assurance that the 
attendance of the witness cannot be procured, or 
unless both parties shall consent that it may be read : 
Provided, that in any Diocese in which the civil 
government has authorized the Ecclesiastical Courts 
therein to issue summons for witnesses, or to admin- 
ister an oath, the Court shall act in conformity to 
such laws. 

[5.] All notices and papers may be served by a 
summoner or summoners, to be appointed by the 
Court, when the same is in session, or by a member 
thereof; and the certificate of any such summoner 
shall be evidence of the due service of a notice or 
paper. In case of service by any other person, the 
fact may be proved by the affidavit of such person. 
The delivery of a written notice or paper to the 
accused party, or to the Church Advocate, or leaving 
it, or a cop3' thereof, at the residence, or last known 
residence, of either, shall be deemed sufficient ser- 
vice of such notice or paper on the Church Advo- 
cate and accused, respectively. If the person to be 
served with any notice or paper shall have left the 
United States, it shall be a sufficient service thereof 
to leave a copy of such notice or paper at his last 
place of abode within the United States, sixty days 
before the day in which the appearance, or other act 
required by the said notice or paper, is to be performed. 

[6.] The accused party may, if he think proper, 
have the aid of counsel; and if he should choose to 
have more than one counsel, the Church Advocate 
may have assistant advocates, to be named by the 



On what con- 
dition deposi- 
tions to be 
read. 



Proviso. 



Service of 
notices and 
papers. 



Certificate of 
service. 



Mode of 
service. 



Accused may- 
have counsel. 



Ill 



t'xth II. 



CANON 9. 



§ vi. 



Counsel to be 
communi- 
cants. 

Court to ex- 
press opinion 
on each 
charge and 
specification. 



Decision to be 
reduced to 
writing- and 
signed. 



Accused to be 
heard before 
sentence. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

accusers ; but in every case the Court may regulate 
the number of counsel who shall address the 
Court, or examine witnesses. The Church Advocate 
shall be considered the party on one side, and the 
accused on the other. All counsel must be commu- 
nicants of the Church. 

[7.] The Court, having fully heard the allegations 
and proofs of the parties, and deliberately considered 
the same, after the parties have withdrawn, shall 
declare respectively whether, in their opinion, the 
accused is guilty or not guilty of each particular 
charge and specification contained in the present- 
ment in the order in which they are set forth ; and 
the accused shall be considered as not guilty of every 
charge and specification of which he shall not be 
pronounced guilty by a majority of the members of 
the Court. 

[8.] The decision of the Court as to all the charges 
and specifications of which a majority of the mem- 
bers of the Court have found him guilty, shall be 
reduced to writing, and signed by those who assent 
to it ; and the decision thus signed shall be regarded 
as the judgment of the Court, and shall be pro- 
nounced in the presence of the parties, if they shall 
think proper to attend. 

[9.] If the accused shall be found guilty of any 
charge or specification, the Court shall proceed to 
ask him whether he has anything to say before the 
sentence is passed, and may, in their discretion, give 
him time to prepare what he wishes to say, and 
appoint a time for passing the sentence ; and before 
passing sentence, the Court may adjourn from time 
to time, and give the accused reasonable opportu- 



112 



t'xth II. 



CANON 9. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

nity of showing cause to induce a belief that jus- 
tice has not been done, or that he has discovered 
new testimony ; and the Court, or a majority of its 
members, may, according to a sound discretion, grant 
him a new trial; but, in such new trial, no Bishop New trial, 
shall sit who has already been a trier. Before pass- 
ing sentence, the accused shall always have the 
opportunity of being heard, if he have aught to say 
in excuse or palliation. 

[10.] The accused having been heard, or not Sentence, 
desiring to be heard, the sentence of the Court 
shall then be pronounced, and shall be either 
admonition, suspension as defined by the existing 
Canons of this Church, or degradation, as the 
offence or offences adjudged to be proved shall seem 
to deserve. It shall be the duty of the Court, 
whenever sentence has been pronounced, whether 
it be upon a trial, or for contumacy, to communicate Sentence to 
such sentence to the Ecclesiastical Authority of cata^and'to 
every Diocese of this Church : and it shall be the whon1, 
duty of such Authority to cause such sentence to be 
made known to every Clergyman under his juris- 
diction. 

[11.] Every Court shall keep a full record of Record of 
its proceedings, including the whole evidence given 
before it. Should any Court refuse to insert in its 
record a statement of any testimony which has 
been received, or of any decision which the Court 
has made, or of any fact which has occurred in 
Court, or any paper which either party has produced, 
it shall be the right of either party to file an excep- 
tion in writing, containing a statement of such 
evidence, decision, or fact, or referring to or 

113 



t'xth II. 



CANON 9. 



§ vii. 



Exceptions. 



How kept and 
attested. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

describing such paper, which paper shall also be 
filed with the exception. All exceptions and papers 
so filed shall become parts of the record. 

[12.] Such records shall be kept by the Clerk, 
and inserted in a book, to be attested by the signa- 
tures of the President and Clerk. Every such 
book, and all papers connected with any trial, shall 
be deposited with the Registrar of the General 
Convention. Such books and papers shall be open 
to the inspection of every member of this Church. 

[13.] Every Court, constituted under the authority 
of this Canon, may be attended by one or more 
lay advisers, who shall be communicants of this 
Church, and of the profession of the law. Such 
advisers may be present at all the proceedings of 
the Court, but they shall have no vote in any case 
whatever ; it shall be their duty to give in person 
to the Court an opinion on any question not theo- 
logical, upon which the Court or any member 
thereof, or either party, shall desire an opinion. If 
a dispute shall arise whether any question be or be 
not theological, it shall be decided by the Court 
by a majority of votes. The Court may always, by 
unanimous consent, appoint an adviser or advisers. 
If they are not unanimous, each member of the 
Court may name a candidate ; if not more than 
three are named, they shall all be advisers; if more 
than three are named, the Court shall reduce them 
to three by lot. 



Lay advisers 
may be 
appointed. 



Their office. 



Presentment § vii. [1.] Any Bishop of this Church may be 

for erroneous i. j £ i_ u- j j. j • 

doctrine, presented tor holding and teaching doctrine incon- 
sistent with that of this Church, by any Bishop in 

114 



txtte II. 



CANON 9. 



§ viii. 



Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

communion with this Church and not under sus- to be made by 

pension or degradation. No Bishop shall be pre- aBlshop- 

sented in any other mode for this offence ; and it 

shall not be lawful for two or more persons to unite 

in any such presentment. The Bishop making 

such presentment shall appoint a Church Advocate. Church 

[2.] Every presentment for alleged erroneous 
doctrine shall be signed by the person making it, 
and shall be addressed to the Bishops of the Prot- To whom ad- 
estant Episcopal Church in the United States, and delivered, 
delivered to the senior Bishop entitled to a seat in 
the House of Bishops, and not being the accused 
or the accuser, whose duty it shall be to convene a Court to be 
Court for the trial of the accused. The Court convened - 
shall be composed of all the Bishops entitled to Of whom 
seats in the House of Bishops, except the accuser 
and the accused. Three fourths of such Bishops Quorum, 
shall constitute a quorum ; but the consent of two 
thirds of all the Bishops entitled to seats in the Number 
House of Bishops shall be necessary to a conviction, conviction! & 

§ viii. [1.] If charges be preferred against a Case of 
Missionary Bishop who is not a Diocesan, such againstfa 
Missionary Bishop shall be required by the Presiding Bisiiop nary 
or senior Bishop to name some one of the three 
Dioceses nearest to his District or Missionary field: 
and such selection having been made, the proceed- 
ings shall then be precisely such as, under this 
Canon, they would be were he the Diocesan of the 
Diocese named by him. Should the Missionary 
Bishop refuse to name a Diocese, then the Presid- 
ing Bishop may name any one of the three above 
designated, and the effect shall be the same as if 

115 



txtU II. 



CANON 11. 



Remission or Modification of Judicial Sentences. 

the nomination had been made by the accused 
Missionary Bishop. 

[2.] If charges be preferred against a Bishop 
having no jurisdiction, he shall be proceeded 
against precisely as if he were the Diocesan of the 
Diocese in which he has his civil residence. 



Case of a 
Bishop with- 
out jurisdic- 
tion. 



Suspension. 



Deposition. 



Notice of 
deposition, 
to whom 
given. 



What terms 
are synony- 
mous. 



CANON 10. 

Of Sentences. 

§ i. Whenever the penalty of suspension shall be 
inflicted on a Bishop, Priest, or Deacon, in this 
Church, the sentence shall specify on what terms, 
or at what time, said penalty shall cease. 

§ ii. [1.] When any Minister is deposed from 
the Holy Ministry, he is deposed therefrom entirely, 
and not from a higher to a lower Order in the same ; 
and whenever a Minister shall be deposed, the 
Bishop who pronounces sentence shall, without 
delay, give notice thereof to every Minister and 
Vestry in the Diocese, and also to all the Bishops 
of this Church, and where there is no Bishop, to the 
Standing Committee ; and the notice shall specify 
under what Canon the said Minister has been 
deposed. 

[2.] Deposition, displacing, and all like expres- 
sions, are the same as degradation. 



Remission of 
sentence, 

116 



CANON 11. 

Of the Remission or Modification of Judicial Sentences. 

§ i. The Bishops of this Church, who are entitled 
to seats in the House of Bishops, may altogether 



Z'xtlt II. 



CANON 11. 



§ii. 



Remission or Modification of Judicial Sentences. 



remit and terminate any judicial sentence which may 
have been imposed, by Bishops acting collectively 
as a judicial tribunal ; or modify the same so far as or modiflca- 

n . , . ' . n j... . n tion thereof, 

to designate a precise period of time, or other specific 
contingency, on the occurrence of which such sentence 
shall utterly cease, and be of no further force or 
effect : Provided, that no such remission or modifi- 
cation shall be made except at a meeting of the to be made at 
House of Bishops, during the session of some General vention, Con ' 
Convention, or at a special meeting of the said or meeting 
Bishops, which shall be convened by the Presiding convened. 
Bishop on the application of any five Bishops ; three 
months' notice, in writing, of the time, place, and 
object of the meeting being given personally to each 
Bishop, or left at his usual place of abode : Provided, Majority of 
also, that such remission or modification be assented ber of Bishops 
to by a number of said Bishops, not less than a 
majority of the whole number entitled at the time 
to seats in the House of Bishops : and Provided, that 
nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or alter 
Canon 10 of this Title. 



must assent. 



§ ii. A Bishop of this Church may, for reasons Remission of 
which he shall deem sufficient, remit and terminate deposition.* 
any sentence of deposition or degradation pronounced 
by him upon a Presbyter or Deacon ; but he shall 
exercise this power only upon the following condi- 
tions : 

1. That he shall act with the unanimous advice 
and consent of his Standing Committee. 

2. That he shall first submit his proposed action, But only upon 

•,. i-i f n r certain condi- 

witn his reasons therefor, to the judgment of five of tions. 
the Bishops of this Church, whose Dioceses or Mis- 

117 



II. CANON 12. 



Regulations Respecting the Laity. 

sionary Jurisdictions are nearest to his own, and 
shall receive in writing, from at least four of said 
Bishops, their approval of the said remission and 
their consent thereto. 

3. That before remitting such sentence he shall 
require the person to be restored to the Ministry 
to subscribe the declaration set forth in Article 7 
of the Constitution. 

4. That in case such person was deposed for 
abandoning the Communion of this Church, or 
having been deposed by reason of his renunciation 
of the Ministry of this Church, or for other cause, 
he have also abandoned its Communion, the Bishop, 
before granting such remission, shall be satisfied 
that such person has lived in lay communion with 
this Church for three years next preceding his 
application for such remission ; and, 

5. That in case the person applying for such re- 
mission shall reside out of the Diocese or Missionary 
District in which he was deposed, the Bishop, before 
granting such remission, shall be furnished with 
written evidence of the approval of such application 
by the Bishop of the Diocese or District in which 
such person resides. 

CANON 12. 

Regulations Respecting the Laity. 
Removal of 8 i. A communicant removing from one parish to 

communi- ° , „ 

cants. another shall procure from the Rector (if any) of 

the Parish of his last residence, or, if there be no 

Certificate. Rector, from one of the Wardens, a certificate 
stating that he or she is a communicant in good 



t'xth II. 



CANON 12. 



Regulations Respecting the Laity. 



standing; and the Rector of the Parish or Congre- 
gation to which he or she removes shall not be re- 
quired to receive him or her as a communicant until 
such letter be produced. 

§ ii. [1.] If any persons within this Church crimes and 
offend their brethren by any wickedness of life, te^eifsured. 
such persons shall be repelled from the Holy Com- 
munion, agreeably to the rubric. 

[2.] There being the provision in the second Ordinary to 
rubric before the Communion Service requiring that 
every Minister repelling from the Communion shall 
give an account of the same to the Ordinary, it is 
hereby provided that, on the information to the 
effect stated being laid before the Ordinary, that is, 
the Bishop, it shall not be his duty to institute an 
inquir} r , unless there be a complaint made to him in 
writing by the repelled party, within three months 
from such repulsion. But on receiving complaint, inquiry on 
it shall be the duty of the Bishop, unless he think ^Sm"g int m 
fit to restore him from the insufficiency of the cause 
assigned by the Minister, to institute an inquiry, as 
may be directed by the Canons of the Diocese in 
which the event has taken place. And should no case of the 
such Canon exist, the Bishop shall proceed according rMocesan° f 
to such principles of law and equity as will insure Canon - 
an impartial decision. And the notice, given as 
above by the Minister, shall be a sufficient presenta- 
tion of the party repelled. 

[3.] In case of great heinousness of offence on Deprivation 
the part of members of this Church, they may be of church 6S 
proceeded against to the depriving them of all priv- membersln P- 
ileges of Church membership, according to such 

119 



txtk II. 



CANON 13. 



§ i., ii., iii. 



Of Marriage and Divorce. 

rules or process as may be provided by the General 
Convention ; and until such rules or process shall be 
provided, by such as may be provided by the differ- 
ent Diocesan Conventions. 



Marriage ex- 
cept as God's 
Word doth 
allow not 
lawful. 



No Minister 
shall unite in 
marriage 
those di- 
vorced save 
for the cause 
of adultery. 



CANON 13. 

Of Marriage and Divorce. 

§ i. If any persons be joined together otherwise 
than as God's Word doth allow, their marriage is not 
lawful. 

§ ii. No Minister, knowingly after due inquiry, 
shall solemnize the marriage of any person who has 
a divorced husband or wife still living, if such hus- 
band or wife has been put away for any cause aris- 
ing after marriage ; but this Canon shall not be 
held to apply to the innocent party in a divorce for 
the cause of adultery, or to parties once divorced 
seeking to be united again. 



The Sacra- 
ments to be 
withheld 
from persons 
married 
otherwise 
than as God's 
Word doth 
allow. 



Proviso. 



§ iii. If any Minister of this Church shall have 
reasonable cause to doubt whether a person desirous 
of being admitted to Holy Baptism, or to Confirma- 
tion, or to the Holy Communion, has been married 
otherwise than as the Word of God and discipline 
of this Church allow, such Minister, before receiving 
such person to these ordinances, shall refer the case 
to the Bishop for his godly judgment thereupon : 
Provided, hoivever, that no Minister shall, in any case, 
refuse the Sacraments to a penitent person in immi- 
nent danger of death. 



120 



tm ii. 



CANON 13. 



§ iv., v. 



Of Marriage and Divorce. 
§ iv. Questions touching the facts of any case Questions to 

"b© i*©f © i*r*©cl XiO 

arising under Section ii. of this Canon shall be re- the Bishop, 
ferred to the Bishop of the Diocese or Missionary 
Jurisdiction in which the same may occur ; or if 
there be no Bishop of such Diocese or Missionary 
Jurisdiction, then to some Bishop to be designated 
by the Standing Committee ; and the Bishop to 
whom such questions have been so referred shall 
thereupon make inquiry in such manner as he shall 
deem expedient, and shall deliver his judgment in 
the premises. 

§ v. This Canon, so far as it affixes penalties, does The penalties 
not apply to cases occurring before it takes effect, canon 1S 
according to Title IV., Canon 4. limited - 



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txtte III. 



CANON 1. 



§i- 



title in. 

OF THE ORGANIZED BODIES AND OFFICERS OF 
THE CHURCH. 



CANON 1. 

Of the General Convention. 



Special meet- 
ings of Gene- 
ral Conven- 
tion. 



Proviso. 



Place of 
meeting. 



Same 
Deputies. 



§ i. [1.] The right of calling special meetings of 
the General Convention shall be in the Bishops. 
This right shall be exercised by the Presiding Bishop, 
or, in case of his death, by the Bishop who, accord- 
ing to the rules of the House of Bishops, is to 
preside at the next General Convention : Provided, 
that the summons shall be with the consent, or on 
the requisition, of a majority of the Bishops, expressed 
to him in writing. 

[2.] The place of holding any Special Convention 
shall be that fixed on by the preceding General 
Convention for the meeting of the General Conven- 
tion, unless circumstances shall render a meeting at 
such a place unsafe ; in which case the Presiding 
Bishop may appoint some other place. 

[3.] The Deputies elected to the preceding Gen- 
eral Convention shall be the Deputies at such 
Special Convention, unless in those cases in which 
other Deputies shall have been chosen in the mean 
time by any of the Diocesan Conventions, and then 
such other Deputies shall represent in the Special 
Convention the Church of the Diocese in which they 
have been chosen. 



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t'xttt III. 



CANON 1. 



§ii. 



Of the General Convention. 

[4.] The Rules and Orders of the House of Rules and 
Deputies shall be in force in the ensuing General ° rder8. 
Convention, until the organization thereof, and 
until they be amended or repealed by the said 
House. 



§ ii. [1.] The journals, files, papers, reports, and Registrar, 
other documents, which are named under Title I. 
Canon 20, entitled Of Securing an Accurate View of 
the State of the Church, together with all other articles 
that are now, or shall hereafter become, the property 
of either House of the General Convention of this 
Church, shall be committed, when not otherwise 
expressly provided for, to the keeping of a Presbyter Howap- 
to be elected by the House of Deputies, upon nomi- pomted- 
nation of the House of Bishops, who shall be known 
as the Registrar of the General Convention. 

[2.] It shall be the duty of the said Registrar to Duties of 
procure all such journals, files, papers, reports, and Registrar - 
other documents now in existence ; to arrange, label, 
file, index, and otherwise put in order, and provide 
for the safe keeping of, the same, and all such others 
as may hereafter come into his possession, in fire- 
proof box or boxes, or in some safe and accessible 
place of deposit, and to hold the same under such 
regulations and restrictions as the General Conven- 
tion may from time to time provide. 

[3.] It shall be the duty of the said Registrar to Record of 
procure a proper and sufficient book of record, and of Bishops, 
to enter therein a record of the Consecrations of all 
the Bishops of this Church, designating accurately 
the time and place of the same, with the names of 
the Consecrating Bishops, and of others present and 

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III. 



CANON 1. 



§ iii- , iv. 



Of the General Convention. 



How authen- 
ticated. 



Duplicate 
Letters of 
Consecra- 
tion. 



Expenses. 



assisting; to have the same authenticated in the 
fullest manner now practicable ; and to take care 
for the similar record and authentication of all future 
Consecrations in this Church. Due notice of the 
time and place of every such Consecration shall be 
given by the Presiding Bishop to the Registrar ; and 
thereupon it shall be the duty of the Registrar to 
attend such Consecration, either in person or by 
deputy. He shall prepare, in such form as the 
House of Bishops shall j^rescribe, duplicate originals 
of the Letters of Consecration ; and he shall procure 
the same to be immediately signed and sealed by the 
Consecrating Bishop, and by at least two of the 
Bishops assisting at such Consecration ; and one of 
the said duplicate originals said Registrar shall 
deliver to the newly consecrated Bishop ; and the 
other he shall carefully file among the papers in his 
custody : and he shall enter a minute thereof in his 
record. 

[4.] The expenses necessary for the purposes 
contemplated by this Section shall be provided for 
by vote of the General Convention, and defrayed by 
the Treasurer of the same. 



Notice to 
Diocesan 
Conventions. 



§ iii. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the 
House of Deputies, whenever any alteration of the 
Constitution is proposed, or any other subject sub- 
mitted to the consideration of the several Diocesan 
Conventions, to give a particular notice thereof to 
the Ecclesiastical Authority of this Church in every 
Diocese. 



Treasurer. 



§ iv. At every triennial meeting of the General 
Convention, a Treasurer shall be chosen, who shall 



&%tk III. CANON 2. 



Of Standing Committees. 

remain in office until the next stated Convention, His duties, 
and until a successor be appointed. It shall be his 
duty to receive and disburse all moneys collected 
under the authority of the Convention, and of which 
the collection and disbursement shall not otherwise 
be regulated ; and to invest, from time to time, for 
the benefit of the Convention, such surplus funds as 
he may have on hand. His account shall be rendered 
triennially to the Convention, and shall be examined 
by a Committee acting under its authority. In case How vacancy 
of a vacancy in the office of Treasurer, it shall be to be fllled * 
supplied by an appointment to be made by the 
Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese to which he 
belonged ; and the person so appointed shall con- 
tinue to act until an appointment be made by the 
Convention. 

§ v. In order that the contingent expenses of the Expensesof 
General Convention may be defrayed, it shall be the vention. 
duty of the several Diocesan Conventions to forward 
to the Treasurer of the General Convention, at or 
before any meeting of the General Convention, three Diocesan 
dollars for each Clergyman within such Diocese. 



ratio. 



CANON 2. 

Of Standing Committees. 

§ i. In every Diocese there shall be a Standing Duties of 
Committee, to be appointed by the Convention there- committee, 
of, whose duties, except so far as provided for by the 
Canons of the General Convention, may be pre- 
scribed by the Canons of the respective Dioceses. 
They shall elect from their own body a President 



125 



titk III. 



CANON 3. 



Of Congregations and Parishes. 



President 
and 

Secretary. 



To be a 
Council of 
Advice. 



When the 

Ecclesiastical 

Authority. 



and a Secretary. They may meet on their own ad- 
journment from time to time ; and the President 
shall have power to summon special meetings when- 
ever he shall deem it necessary. 

§ ii. In every Diocese where there is a Bishop, 
the Standing Committee shall be a Council of Ad- 
vice to the Bishop. They shall be summoned on the 
requisition of the Bishop, whenever he shall wish for 
their advice. And they may meet of their own 
accord, and agreeably to their own rules, when they 
may be disposed to advise the Bishop. 

§ iii. When there is no Bishop, the Standing 
Committee is the Ecclesiastical Authority for all 
purposes declared in these Canons. 



Union with 
Church in 
another 
Diocese. 



No Clergy- 
man to sit in 
two Diocesan 
Conventions. 



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CANON 3. 

Of Congregations and Parishes. 

§ i. Whereas, a question may arise whether a 
congregation within the Diocese of any Bishop, or 
within any Diocese in which there is not yet any 
Bishop settled, may unite themselves with the Church 
in any other Diocese, it is hereby determined and 
declared that all such unions shall be considered as 
irregular and void ; and that every congregation of 
this Church shall be considered as belonging to the 
body of the Church of the Diocese within the limits 
of which they dwell, or within which there is seated 
a Church to which they belong. And no Clergyman, 
having a Parish or cure in more than one Diocese, 
shall have a seat in the Convention of any Diocese 
other than that in which he resides. 



txtk III. 



CANON 3. 



§ii., iii. 



Of Congregations and Parishes. 



§ ii. [1.] The ascertainment and defining of the Parish bound- 
boundaries of existing Parishes or parochial cures, new%ariihes. 
as well as the 'establishment of a new Church or 
Congregation, and forming a new Parish within the 
limits of any other Parish, is left to the action of 
the several Diocesan Conventions, for the Dioceses 
respectively. 

[2.] Until a Canon or other regulation of a Dio- Where power 
cesan Convention shall have been adopted, the for- 3 vested- 
mation of new Parishes, or establishment of new 
Churches or Congregations within the limits of 
other Parishes, shall be vested in the Bishop of the 
Diocese, acting by and with the advice and consent 
of the Standing Committee thereof; and in case of 
there being no Bishop, in the Ecclesiastical Authority. 

[3.] Nothing contained in this Section shall af- Vested rights 
feet any legal rights of property of any Parish. 

§ iii. [1.] It shall be lawful, under the conditions Congrega- 
hereinafter stated, to organize a Church or Congrega- foreign lands, 
tion in any foreign country (other than Great Britain 
and Ireland, and the colonies and dependencies there- 
of), and not within the limits of any foreign Mis- 
sionary Bishop of this Church. 

[2.] The Bishop in charge of such Congregations, How 
and the Standing Committee hereinafter provided org,anize 
for, may authorize any Presbyter of this Church to 
officiate temporarily at any place to be named by 
them, within any such foreign country, upon being 
satisfactorily assured that it is expedient to establish 
at such place a Congregation of this Church. Such 
Presbyter, having publicly officiated at such place 
not less than four Sundays consecutively, may give 

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txtk in. 



CANON 3. 



§iii. 



Of Congregations and Parishes. 



Must recog- 
nize Constitu- 
tion, etc. 



Certificate of 
desire for 
reception. 



Certificate of 
satisfaction. 



128 



notice, in the time of Divine Service, that a meeting 
of the members of this Church attending such ser- 
vices will be held, at a time and place to be named 
by him, to organize a Church or Congregation. All 
male persons of full age belonging to this Church 
may take part in said meeting. And the said meet- 
ing may proceed to effect an organization, subject to 
the approval of the said Bishop and Standing Com- 
mittee, and in conformity to such regulations as the 
said Standing Committee may prescribe. 

[3.] Such Church or Congregation shall be 
required, in its Constitution, or Plan, or Articles of 
Organization, to recognize and accede to the Consti- 
tution, Canons, Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States of America, and particularly to submit to and 
abide by such directions as may be, from time to 
time, received from the Bishop in charge, and the 
Standing Committee hereinafter provided for, in 
order to its being received under the direction of 
the General Convention of this Church. 

[4.] In order to such reception, it shall be required 
to declare its desire therefor, duly certified by the 
Minister, one Churchwarden, and two Vestrymen or 
Trustees of said Church or Congregation. 

[5.] Such certificate, and the Constitution, Plan, 
or Articles of Organization, shall be submitted to 
the General Convention during its session, or to the 
Presiding Bishop of the House of Bishops at any 
other time ; and in case the same are found satis- 
factory, a certificate thereof shall be forwarded to 
the Secretary of the House of Deputies of the Gen- 
eral Convention, who shall thereupon place its name 



t'xth in. 



CANON 3. 



§iii. 



Of Congregations and Parishes. 



on the list of foreign Churches under the direction 
of the General Convention ; and also a copy of the 
same shall be forwarded to and filed by the Registrar 
of the Church, and such Church or Congregation 
shall thereupon become subject to and placed under 
the Episcopal government and jurisdiction of such 
Presiding Bishop for the time being. 

[6.] Such Presiding Bishop may, from time to 
time, by written commission under his own signature 
and seal, assign to any other Bishop of this Church, 
having jurisdiction in the United States, the full 
Episcopal charge of one or more of such Churches 
or Congregations, and the Clergymen officiating 
therein, for such period of time as he may deem 
expedient : Provided, such commissions shall not 
extend to a period longer than three years, and shall 
then cease and determine, unless renewed by the 
Presiding Bishop. 

[7.] To aid the Presiding Bishop, or the Bishop 
in charge of these foreign Churches, in administering 
the affairs of the same, and in settling such questions 
as may, by means of their peculiar situation, arise, 
there shall be a Standing Committee, to consist of 
communicants of this Church, who shall be chosen 
and elected as follows : Each Church or Congrega- 
tion, thus in union with the General Convention, 
shall have the right to nominate, to the Bishop in 
charge, one person, who shall be a communicant, and 
the General Convention shall nominate four persons, 
of whom two at least shall be Clergymen, who shall 
hold office until the General Convention next 
ensuing, and until their successors are elected, and 
together they shall constitute the said Standing 



Jurisdiction 
of Presiding- 
Bishop may- 
be assigned. 



Proviso. 



Standing- 
Committee of 
Foreign 
Churches. 



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titte in. 



CANON 3. 



§iii. 



Of Congregations and Parishes. 



Inquiry to be 
instituted. 



Commission 
appointed. 



Proviso. 



130 



Committee, of which the Bishop in charge of said 
foreign Churches shall be the chairman. A majority 
of all the members shall be a quorum. This Stand- 
ing Committee shall be a Council of Advice to the 
Bishop. They shall be summoned on the requisition 
of the Bishop, whenever he shall desire their advice. 
And they may meet of their own accord, and agree- 
ably to their own rules, when they may be disposed 
to advise the Bishop. 

[8.] In case a Clergyman in charge of either of 
these Congregations in foreign lands shall be charged 
with either of the punishable offences, as specified in 
Title II., Canon 2, Section i., of the Digest, it shall 
be the duty of the Bishop in charge of such Churches 
to summon the Standing Committee above provided 
for, and to see that an inquiry be instituted as to 
the truth of such public charges ; and should there 
be reasonable grounds for believing them to be true, 
the Bishop in charge and the Standing Committee 
shall appoint a Commission, consisting of three 
Clergymen and two Laymen, whose duty it shall be 
to obtain all the evidence in the case from the parties 
interested, and who shall, if possible, hold their 
meeting in the place where the accused resides, 
giving to the accused all rights under the Canons of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church which can be exer- 
cised in a foreign land. The judgment of said 
Commission, solemnly made and subscribed to, shall 
then be sent to the Bishop in charge, and to the 
Presiding Bishop, and, if approved by them, shall be 
carried into effect: Provided, that no such Commis- 
sion shall recommend any other discipline than 
admonition or removal from his charge as Minister 



txih III. 



CANON 3. 



§iii. 



Of Congregations and Parishes. 



of said Congregation. Should the result of the 
inquiry of the aforementioned Commission reveal 
evidence tending to show that said Clergyman 
deserves a severer discipline, then all the documents 
in the case shall be placed in the hands of the Pre- 
siding Bishop, who shall then proceed against said 
Clergyman (as far as possible) according to the 
Canon of Discipline, under Title II. of the Digest, 
and the Diocesan Canons of the Diocese of the said 
Presiding Bishop. 

[9.] If there be but one such Church or Congre- 
gation within the limits of any city, said cit} r shall 
be deemed the parochial cure of the Minister having 
charge of the same, and no new Church or Congre- 
gation shall be established therein, unless with the 
consent of the Bishop in charge, and of the Standing 
Committee herein appointed. Nor shall any Church 
or Congregation be organized in any foreign city, 
under the provisions of this Canon, unless with the 
approval of the Bishop in charge, and the Standing 
Committee herein provided for. 

[10.] In cases of difference between the Minister 
and his Congregation, the Bishop in charge shall, 
with the Standing Committee, duly examine the 
same, and said Bishop and Standing Committee shall 
have full power to settle, and, if possible, adjust such 
differences upon the recognized principles of Eccle- 
siastical law, as laid down in the Canon law of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. 

[11.] No Clergyman shall be allowed to take 
charge of such Congregation until he shall have been 
nominated by the Vestry thereof (or, if there be no 
such Vestry, by the Standing Committee, provided 



Parochial 
cure of 
Minister. 



Differences to 
be adjusted 
on principles 
of Ecclesias- 
tical law. 



Clergyman to 
be nominated 
by the Vestry, 
and approved 
by the Bishop 
in charge. 

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titk in. 



CANON 4. 



§ i., ii. 



Of the Organisation of New Dioceses. 



be trans- 
ferred. 



Organization 
of new 
Dioceses. 



for by this Canon), and approved by the Bishop in 
charge; and when such appointment shall have been 
Clergyman to accepted by the Clergyman so appointed, he shall be 
transferred to the jurisdiction of the Bishop in 
charge. 

CANON 4. 

Of the Organisation of New Dioceses. 

§ i. Whenever any new Diocese shall be formed 
within the limits of any other Diocese, or by the 
junction of two or more Dioceses, or parts of 
Dioceses, and the same shall have been ratified by 
the General Convention, the Bishop of the Diocese 
within the limits of which another is formed, or in 
case of the junction of two or more Dioceses, or parts 
of Dioceses, the Bishop of eldest consecration over 
the Dioceses furnishing portions of such new Dio- 
cese, shall thereupon call the Primary Convention 
of the new Diocese, for the purpose of enabling it to 
organize, and shall fix the time and place of holding 
the same, such place being within the territorial 
limits of the new Diocese. 

§ ii. In case there should be no Bishop who can 
call such Primary Convention, pursuant to the fore- 
going provisions, then the duty of calling such 
Convention for the purpose of organizing, and the 
duty of fixing the time and place of its meeting, 
shall be vested in the Standing Committee of the 
Diocese within the limits of which the new one is 
erected, or the Standing Committee of the eldest of 
the Dioceses by the junction of which, or parts of 
which, the new Diocese may be formed. And such 

132 



Primary Con- 
vention. 



The call, by 
whom to be 
made. 



^/itU III. CANON 5. §i. 



Of the Requisites of a Quorum. 

Standing Committee shall make such call imme- when it must 
diately after the ratification of a division by the be made - 
General Convention. 

§ iii. Whenever one Diocese is about to be Division of a 

• Dioc©s© 

divided into two Dioceses, the Convention of such 
Diocese shall declare which portion thereof is to be 
the new Diocese, and shall make the same known to 
the General Convention before the ratification of 
such division. 

§ iv. Whenever the formation of a new Diocese New Diocese 
shall be ratified by the General Convention, such union^onor- 
new Diocese shall be considered as admitted under gaaizafron. 
Article 5 of the Constitution, so soon as it shall have 
organized in Primary Convention, in the manner 
prescribed in the previous Sections of this Canon, 
and the naming of the new Diocese shall be a part Naming of 
of its organization. new Diocese - 



CANON 5. 

Of the Requisites of a Quorum. 

In all cases in which a Canon of the General A majority is 
Convention directs a duty to be performed, or a a< i uoruni - 
power to be exercised, by a Standing Committee, 
or by the Clerical members thereof, or by any other 
body consisting of several members, a majority of 
the said members, the whole having been duly cited 
to meet, shall be a quorum ; and a majority of the Majority of a 

j iiii i ii , quorum com- 

quorum so convened shall be competent to act, pe tent to act. 

unless the contrary is expressly required by the 

Canon. 

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txtU III. 



CANON 7. 



§i. 



CANON 6. 



The Dioceses 
within any 
State may 
form a Fed- 
erate Con- 
vention or 
Council, 



with the 
approval of 
the General 
Convention. 



May exercise 
powers pre- 
viously 
approved. 



Legislative 
action may be 
secured. 



Authorising the Formation of a Federate Convention 
or Council of the Dioceses within any State. 

§ i. It is hereby declared lawful for the Dioceses 
now existing or hereafter to exist, within the limits 
of any State or Commonwealth, to establish for 
themselves a Federate Convention or Council repre- 
senting such Dioceses, which may deliberate and 
decide upon the common interests of the Church 
within the limits aforesaid ; but before any determi- 
nate action of such Convention or Council shall be 
had, the powers proposed to be exercised shall be 
submitted to the General Convention for its 
approval. 

§ ii. Any such Federate Convention or Council 
may exercise any powers that shall have been pre- 
viously approved by the General Convention for 
any other Federate Convention or Council. 

§ iii. Nothing in this Canon shall be construed as 
forbidding any Federate Council from taking such 
action as they may deem necessary to secure such 
legislative enactments as the common interests of 
the Church in the State may require. 



134 



CANON 7. 

Of the Constitution of the Domestic and Foreign Mis- 
sionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
in the United States of America. 

§ i. The Constitution of the said Society, which 
was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of 



t'xtU III. 



CANON 7. 



Of the Constitution, etc. 

the State of New York, is hereby amended and es- 
tablished so as to read as follows : 

Constitution of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary 
Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
United States of America, as established in 1820 and 
since amended at various times. 

Article I. This institution shall be denominated Name. 
The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States of America. 

Article II. This Society shall be considered as Of whom 
comprehending all persons who are members of this 
Church. 

Article III. There shall be a Board of Mis- Board of 
sions of such Society, composed of the Bishops of 
this Church, and the members for the time being of 
the House of Deputies of the General Convention, 
the Delegates from the Missionary Jurisdictions to 
the said House of Deputies, and the members of the 
Board of Managers as hereinafter described. The Shan convene 
Board of Missions thus constituted shall convene on day of session 
the third day of the session of the General Conven- convention 
tion, and shall sit from time to time as the business 
of the Board shall demand. 

Article IV. There shall be a Missionary Council Missionary 
of this Church. It shall comprise all the Bishops of Councl1- 
this Church, all the members of the Board of Man- 
agers, such other clergymen or laymen as may be' 
selected by the General Convention at its triennial 
meetings, and in addition thereto, one presbyter and When to 
one layman from each Diocese and Missionary Juris- meet ' 
diction to be chosen by the Convention, Council, or 

135 



titk III. 



CA N 2V 7. 



Of the Constitution, etc. 



"When to 
meet. 



Its powers. 



Vacancies 
may be filled. 



Board of 
Managers. 



Its powers. 



Vacancies 
may be filled. 



Ex-officio 
members. 



136 



Convocation of such Diocese or Missionary Jurisdic- 
tion ; said Presbyter and said layman to continue in 
office for one year or until a successor is appointed. 
This Council so formed shall meet annually except 
in those years appointed for the meeting of the 
Board of Missions, at such time and place as may 
be designated by the Board of Managers with the ap- 
proval of the Presiding Bishop. Said Council shall be 
competent to consider the Missionary work of the 
Church, to make such recommendations to the Board 
of Managers as it may deem expedient, and to in- 
crease interest in the work of the Boai'd of Mis- 
sions. It shall be competent for the Bishop of a 
Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction to fill vacancies 
in the representation of his Diocese or Jurisdiction 
occurring by removal, resignation, or death, between 
the sessions of the Convention, Council, or Convoca- 
tion of his Diocese or Missionary Jurisdiction. 

There shall also be appointed in like manner a 
Board of Managers, to be selected from the Mission- 
ary Council, comprising the Presiding Bishop as 
President, and fifteen other Bishops, fifteen Presby- 
ters, and fifteen laymen, who shall have the manage- 
ment of the general missions of this Church, and when 
the Board of Missions is not in session, shall exercise 
all the corporate powers of the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society ; they shall remain in office until 
their successors are chosen, and they shall have power 
to fill any vacancies that may occur in their number. 

All other Bishops of this Church, together with the 
Secretary and Treasurer of the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society, and of the Board of Managers, 
shall be ex-officio members of the Board, and have all 
the rights and privileges of the elected members ex- 
cept the right to vote. 



titk III. 



CANON 7. 



Of the Constitution, etc. 

Whenever demanded by one-fifth of the members Quorum, etc. 
present, a majority of two-thirds of the members vot- 
ing shall be necessary to any act of the Board. In all 
annual appropriations, and in entering upon or aban- 
doning any missionary field, as also in changing the by- 
laws, a majority must be present. For all other business, 
the Board may, by a by-law, determine the quorum. 

The Board of Managers shall make a full and com- Reports, 
plete triennial report to the General Convention, con- 
stituted as the Board of Missions, on or before the third 
day of the session of the General Convention, and a sim- 
ilar report to the Missionary Council at its annual meet- 
ings, comprising such an outline of the missionary work 
prosecuted during the preceding year as may serve to 
give a comprehensive view of the progress, prospect's 
and present condition of the work of the Society in 
the several parts of the Domestic and Foreign fields. 

There shall be appointed at each meeting of the committee to 
General Convention and of the Missionary Council, a of work° rder 
Committee consisting of two Bishops, two Presbyters, 
and two laymen, together with the General Secretary 
of the Board of Missions, whose duty it shall be to 
arrange an order of work for the ensuing meeting of 
the Board of Missions, or of the Missionary Council. 

Article V. The Board of Managers is authorized 
to form such committees as it may deem desirable to 
promote the Missionary work, and to appoint such 
officers as shall be needful for carrying on such work, 
and to enact all By-laws, for its own government and 
the government of its committees and officers. 

Article VI. The Board of Managers is entrusted Further pow- 
with power to establish and regulate such missions ers - 
as are not placed under Episcopal Supervision. 

137 



Committees 
may be 
formed. 



txtk in. 



CANON 7. 



§i. 



Appropria- 
tions. 



Of the Constitution, etc. 

In all organized Dioceses and Missionary Juris- 
dictions having Bishops in the Domestic field, it is 
authorized to make annual appropriations to be 
disbursed by the Bishops with the approval of the 
Standing Committee or Board of Missions of the 
Diocese or Jurisdiction, and whenever any of said 
Bishops may so elect, the Board of Managers shall 
act as above provided instead of such Standing 
Committee or said Diocesan Board of Missions : 
Provided, that no part of such annual appropriations 
shall be expended for any other purpose than the 
support of Missionaries, or the supply of Mission 
Stations with clerical service, without the concur- 
rence of the Board of Managers ; and an itemized 
account of the expenditure of all appropriations 
shall be made annually to the President of the Board 
of Managers ; and, Provided, that in the manage- 
ment of the Foreign Missions, the Bishops shall have 
as their Council of advice the Board of Managers 
for the general schedule of expenditures ; but for 
the details of the local work, they may have as their 
Council of advice the Standing Committees of their 
respective Jurisdictions. 

Article VII. The salary of a Missionary Bishop 
shall be fixed at or before the time of his election, 
to take effect from the date of his Consecration, and 
shall not be diminished during his official relation to 
the Board of Missions without his consent. But all 
contributions by the Missionaiy Jurisdictions for the 
support of their Bishops shall be reported to the 
Board of Managers and accounted for as a part of 
such salary. 

Whenever the Board shall be satisfied of the 
ability of a Missionary Jurisdiction to support its 
Bishop with a salary not less than that provided for 
at his Consecration, the relation of such Missionary 
Bishop to the Board of Missions may be terminated 
by said Board. 



Account of 
appropria- 
tions to be 
rendered. 



Council of 
advice for 
Foreign 
Missions. 



Salary of 
Missionary- 
Bishop. 



Relation of 
Missionary 
Bishop to 
Board may be 
terminated. 



138 



t'xtit III. 



CANON 7. 



Of the Constitution, etc. 

Article VIII. No person shall be appointed a who may be 
Missionary who is not at the time a Minister in Missionaries, 
regular standing of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
or of some Church in communion with this Church ; 
but nothing in this Section shall preclude the Board 
of Managers from employing laymen or women, 
members of this Church, or of some Church in com- 
munion with the same, to do Missionary work. 

Article IX. The Board of Managers shall have Auxiliary 
power to appoint local agents to represent the Associatlons - 
Society in different parts of the country, and is 
authorized to promote the formation of auxiliary 
Missionary Associations, whose contributions, as 
well as those specially appropriated by individuals, 
shall be received and paid in accordance with the 
wish of the donors, when expressed in writing. It 
shall be the duty of the Board of Managers to arrange Public 
for public Missionary meetings, to be held at such 
times and places as may be determined upon, to 
which all auxiliaries approved by the Board of 
Managers may send representatives. 

Article X. "Whenever there shall be a meeting: 
of the Board of Missions, as provided for in Article 
III. of this Canon, there shall be a roll call of the „ „ mo „ 

' . Til- i Roll call may 

Bishops and of all deputations and delegations, and be made, 
of the other members of the Board, and in all votes 
such call shall also be made whenever demanded by 
the Clerical or Lay Deputation of any Diocese, or by 
any three members appointed under Article III. A 
majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for Quorum, 
business. A majority of all members of the Board 
present at any meeting ehall be necessary to pass 
any motion. 

Article XI. This Constitution may be altered ^ a ybe Ution 
or amended at any time by the General Convention altered, 
of this Church. 

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&'\tlt III. 



CANON 7. 



§ ii-, iii. 



Of the Constitution, etc. 



Canons 
repealed. 



§ ii. All Canons, and all action by or under the 
authority of the General Convention, so far as 
inconsistent with the provisions of this Canon and 
of such amended Constitution, are hereby repealed : 
Provided, however, that nothing herein shall in any 
manner impair or affect any corporate rights of the 
said society, or any vested right whatever. 

§ iii. This Canon shall take effect immediately. 



Election of 
Trustees. 



Term of 
office. 



First Enlarge- 
ment of Board 
of Trustees. 



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CANON 8. 

Of General Clergv Relief. 

§ i. [1.] The General Convention at each Trien- 
nial Meeting shall elect, on the nomination of a Joint 
Committee thereof, fifteen persons to serve as Trus- 
tees of the Fund for the Relief of Widows and Or- 
phans of Deceased Clergymen, and of Aged, Infirm 
and Disabled Clergymen, instituted by the General 
Convention in 1853, and incorporated in Chapter 459 
of the laws of the State of New York in 1855. Said 
Trustees shall hold office until the succeeding Gen- 
eral Convention, or until their successors shall be 
elected, and shall have power to fill vacancies occur- 
ring in their own Board, and to appoint officers and 
agents. 

[2.] The first named seven Trustees elected by the 
General Convention of 1892 shall manage the affairs 
of the Fund until the enactment of such legislation 
as shall enlarge the number of Trustees from seven 
to fifteen, and after such enactment, the remaining 
eight Trustees elected by the Convention as herein- 
before provided, shall enter upon the discharge of 
their duties. 



titte ill. 



CANON 8. 



§ ii. iii. iv. v. vi. 



Of General Clergy Relief. 

§ ii. [1.] The widow of any deceased clergyman, who may be 
remaining unmarried, the children of any deceased Deneflciaries - 
cleigyman until they have reached the age of twenty- 
one years, unless they shall have married before that 
age, and any clergyman being permanently disabled, 
or having reached the age of sixty-four years, shall 
be entitled, in the discretion of the Trustees, to share 
in the benefits of this Fund. 

[2.] All applications to the Trustees shall bear the Applications, 
recommendation of the Bishop, or in case there be 
no Bishop, of the clerical members of the Standing 
Committee of the Diocese or Jurisdiction to which 
the applicant may belong. 

§ iii. The resources of the Fund shall be from such Resources, 
royalties as shall be established by the General Con- 
vention, from offerings in parishes, and from such 
other voluntary gifts and legacies as may be received. 

§ iv. The Trustees shall publish a report on the Reports, 
first of September, in each year, showing a complete 
list of all contributions to the Fund within the year 
past, and shall cause a copy of such report to be sent 
to every Bishop and Clergyman of the Church. 

§ v. Contributors to the Fund shall have the Designation 
right to designate how their contributions shall be tk>ns ntribU " 
applied, and the Bishop of any Diocese or Jurisdic- 
tion may, within one year after the report is issued, 
direct how the contributions of congregations in his 
Diocese or Jurisdiction so reported the use of which 
has not been designated, shall be applied. 

§ vi. The Trustees may enter into relations with Affiliated so- 
all kindred funds and societies in the Church, and so cieties - 

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titk III. 



CANON 9. 



§ i. ii. iii. iv. 



Of the Distribution of the Book of Common Prayer. 



far as may be practicable, secure their co-operation to 
the end that there may be a complete record of all 
clergy relief in the Church, and that such relief may 
be distributed wisely, equitably and efficiently. 



Trustees ap- 
pointed. 



Object of the 
Society. 



Annual meet- 
ing. 



Report. 



Auxiliaries. 



CANON 9. 

Of the Distribution of the Booh of Common Prayer. 

§ i. The General Convention shall at each trien- 
nial meeting on the nomination of a Joint Committee 
appoint fifteen persons, of whom the Custodian of the 
Standard Prayer Book shall be one, to constitute a 
Board of Trustees of a Society to be entitled the 
Prayer Book Distribution Society. 

§ ii. The object of this Society shall be to promote 
the distribution of the Book of Common Prayer 
among the people throughout the United States of 
America. 

§ iii. An annual meeting of this Society shall be 
held at the same time and place as the Missionary 
Council and the Triennial meeting of the General 
Convention. On the third day of the General Con- 
vention this Society shall report to the two Houses 
sitting together as the Board of Missions, the opera- 
tions of the Society during the three years past. 

§ iv. Existing incorporated societies for the publi- 
cation and distribution of "the Prayer Book may be- 
come auxiliaries to this General Society and each be 
entitled to one representative in the Board of Trus- 
tees. 



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txtk iv. 



CANON 1. 



§i- 



title IV. 

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 



CANON 1. 

Of Repealed Canons. 

Whenever there shall be a repealing clause in Repeal of 
any Canon, and the said Canon shall be repealed, enactmen 
such repeal shall not be a re-enactment of the Canon 
or Canons repealed by the said repealing clause. 



CANON 2. 

Of the Enactment, Amendment, and Repeal of Canons. 

§ i. In all cases of future enactment, the same, Form of aiter- 
if by the way of amendment of an existing provision, ins Canons - 
shall be in the following form : " Title — , Canon — , 
Section — , Clause — , is hereby amended so as to 
read as follows." And if the enactment is of an 
additional Clause, Section, or Canon, it shall be 
designated as the next Canon or next Section, or 
next Clause of a Canon or Section, in the order of 
numbering of the Title to which the subject properly 
belongs ; and if a Canon or Section or Clause be 
stricken out, the existing numbering shall be retained 
until a new edition of the Canons be directed, or 
until changed as in the next Section provided. 

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txtk iv. 



CANON 4. 



Of the Time when New Canons shall take Effect. 



Who are to 
certify 
changes in 
Canons. 



§ ii. The Committee on Canons of each House of 
the General Convention shall, at the close of each 
Session of the General Convention, appoint two of 
their number to certify the changes, if any, made 
in the Canons, including a correction of the refer- 
ences made in any Canon to another, and to report 
the same, with the proper arrangement thereof, to 
the Secretary, who shall print the same in the Journal. 



CANON 3. 



Time of 
taking effect. 



General re- 
peal. 



Of the Time of these Canons taking Effect. 

These Canons shall take effect on the first day of 
January, in the year of our Lord 1860 ; from and 
after which day all other Canons of this Church are 
hereby, and shall be deemed to be, repealed : Pro- 
vided, that such repeal shall not affect any case of a 
violation of existing Canons committed before that 
date ; but such case shall be governed by the same 
law as if no such repeal had taken place. 



CANON 4. 

Of the Time when New Canons shall take Effect. 

New Canons All Canons hereafter enacted, unless otherwise 
January i. specially ordered, shall take effect on the first day of 
January following the adjournment of the General 
Convention at which they are made. 



144 



The foregoing is a true Copy of the Constitu- 
tion and Canons. 



Attest, Charles L. Hutchins, 

Secretary of the House of Deputies. 

Minneapolis, October 23, A. D. 1895. 



Joint Committee to certify the Changes made in the 
Canons by the General Convention of the Protes- 
tant Episcopal Church in the United States of 
America, held in the City of Minneapolis in the 
Month of October, a.d. 1895. 



JOHN WILLIAMS, 

Bishop Presiding. 



Attest, Samuel Hart, 

Secretary of the House of Bishops. 



MORGAN DIX, 

President of the House of Deputies. 



WILLIAM STEVENS PERRY, 1 Committee 

Bishop of Iowa, on the part 



ALFRED AUGUSTIN WATSON, 0J ™ 

Bishop of East Carolina, > J 




Committee on 



FREDERICK PARKER DAVENPORT, I the part of 
HENRY LNGALLS, [ the House of 



Deputies. 



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APPENDIX. 



Joint Resolution of the Two Houses of General 
Convention on the duty of the Clergy of this Church 
in the matter of bearing arms : 

The Clergy Resolved, That it is the sense of the Protestant 
not to bear . . . . 

arms; Episcopal Ohurch in the United States of America, 

that it is incompatible with the duty, position, and 
sacred calling of the Clergy of this Church to bear 
arms. 

Explanatory Note, by the House of Clerical and Lay 
Deputies : 

The spirit and intent of this resolution do not ex- 
tend to the office of Chaplain in either branch of the 
Military Service, nor to that of Professor or In- 
structor in any Military or Naval Academy. The 
duties of these offices are civil, and entirely compati- 
ble with the duties of the Sacred Ministry. 



but may be 
Chaplains, 
Professors, or 
Instructors. 



Of the Organisation of the House of Deputies, and pre- 
scribing the Duties of the Secretary. 

Record of § i- At the time and place appointed for the meet- 

membership. ing of the General Convention, the Secretary, or in 

his absence one of the Assistant Secretaries, in the 
order of their appointment, or in the absence of all, 
the person appointed as hereinafter provided by the 

146 



ORDER. 



§i- 



Organisation of the House of Deputies, etc. 

Standing Committee of the Diocese in which the 
General Convention is to meet, shall call to order 
the members present of the House of Deputies, and 
record the names of those whose testimonials, in due 
form, shall have been presented to him ; which 
record shall be prima facie evidence that the per- 
sons whose names are therein recorded are entitled 
to seats in the House of Deputies. If there be a Election of 
quorum present, by the record, the Secretary shall 
so declare, and the House shall proceed to organize 
by the election by ballot of a President from the 
members of the House, and of a Secretary ; and a 
majority of all the votes cast shall be necessary to 
an election. So soon as a President and Secretary 
have been elected, a committee shall be appointed to Their duties, 
wait upon the House of Bishops, and inform them 
of the organization of the House of Deputies, and 
its readiness to proceed to business. 

The Secretary shall keep full minutes of the pro- Duties of the 
ceedings of the House ; transcribe them, with all Secretai y* 
reports, into a book provided for that purpose ; 
preserve the Journal and Records of the House ; 
deliver them to his successor ; and perform such 
other duties as may be directed or assigned to him 
by the House. He may, with the approbation of 
the House, appoint three Assistant Secretaries, and 
the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries shall continue Duration of 
in office until the organization of the next Conven- offlC8, 
tion, and until their successors be chosen. If, dur- vacancy 
ing the recess of the General Convention, a vacancy re^cesf. & 
should occur in the office of Secretary, the duties 
thereof shall devolve upon the Assistant Secretaries ; 
or if the Assistant Secretaries shall die or resign, a 

147 



ORDER. 



u., 111., IV. 



Organisation of the House of Deputies, etc. 



Secretary shall be appointed by the Standing Com- 
mittee of the Diocese in which the next General 
Convention is to meet. 

Duty of § ii. In order to aid the Secretary in preparing the 

Secretaries. list specified in the preceding section, it shall be the 
duty of the Secretary of the Convention of every 
Diocese to forward to him, as soon as may be practi- 
cable, a copy of the Journal of the Diocesan Conven- 
tion, together with a certified copy of the Testimo- 
nials of Members aforesaid. He shall also forward a 
duplicate copy of such Testimonials to the Standing 
Committee of the Diocese in which the next General 
Convention is to meet. 

Privileges of S iii . The Secretary of the House of Deputies and 

the Secretary m \ , ~, 

and the the Treasurer of the Convention, although not 

returned as Deputies to the Convention, shall be 
entitled to seats upon the floor of the House, and, 
with the approval of the President, to speak on the 
subjects of their respective offices. 

detern^neb° § * v ' P rev * ous *° * ne meeting of each General 
lot the seats Convention, the Secretary of the last Convention, 
Deputies. under the direction of the Deputies from the Diocese 
in which the Convention is to be held, shall deter- 
mine by lot the seats to be occupied by each delega- 
tion. 



148 



STANDING ORDER AND RESOLUTION. 



0tanMng (Drfcer. 

Of Delegates from Missionary Jurisdictions and from 
Foreign Churches. 

Resolved, That one Clerical and one Lay Delegate, 
to be chosen by any Convocation of all the Clergy 
and representatives of the Laity, convoked by the 
authority of the Bishop of any Missionary Jurisdic- 
tion of this Church, or chosen by a similar Convoca- 
tion of the Churches in Europe, organized under 
Title III., Canon 3, Section iii., of the Digest, con- 
vened by direction of the Presiding Bishop, or by 
the Bishop in charge of Foreign Churches, shall 
have seats assigned to them in this House, with 
similar privileges to those of Deputies, except that 
they shall have no vote on any question or matter : 
and that this be a Standing Order of the House. 



0tanMng Hesolution. 

Of the Expenses of the Presiding Bishop. 

Resolved, That the Treasurer be instructed to pay, 
from time to time, on the order of the Presiding 
Bishop of the House of Bishops, such expenses as he 
may necessarily incur in the execution of his office 
for clerk hire, printing, stationery, etc., not exceed- 
ing four hundred dollars in anyone year; it being 
understood that the travelling expenses of the Pre- 
siding Bishop are paid by the Diocese or other body 
at whose instance they are incurred. 

149 



Jnfrex to % JBigest. 



— Of the Orders in the Ministry, and of the Doc- 
trine and Worship of this Church. 

Page 

Canon 1. — Of the Orders of Ministry in this Church ... 17 

Canon 2. — Of Postulants. 

§ i. — [1.] To consult with Pastor 17 

[2.] To furnish information to the Bishop 17 

Notice of intention 18 

[3.] Dispensation provided 18 

§ ii. — What the application shall state 18 

§ iii. — Bishop shall enter name 18 

§ iv. — [1.] An applicant elsewhere refused admission shall not be 

received without a certificate 18 

[2.] Certificate to be remitted to Standing Committee .... 19 

§ v. — Standing Committee competent to act 19 



Canon 3. — Of Candidates for Holy Orders. 

§ i. — Two classes 19 

§ ii. — Postulant to apply to Standing Committee 19 

§ iii. — And shall lay before them certain papers 19 

(a) His own application 19 

(b) The Bishop's approval 19 

(c) A certificate 20 

Signed by Minister and Vestry 20 

Certificate to be attested 20 

§ iv. — If Parish has no Minister, certificate may be signed by some 

Presbyter 20 



§v.- 
§ vi.— 



1.1 If there be no Parish, by whom certificate is to be signed . 20 

2.1 Reasons for this form of certificate to be stated . . . . 21 
1.] If applicant be a Minister of other Christian body, who 

shall sign certificate 21 

[2.] Signatures to be attested 21 

[3.] Certificate to be laid before Standing Committee .... 22 



151 



INDEX TO THE DIGEST. 



— Of the Ministry, Doctrine, etc. {Continued). 



Canon 3. — Of Candidates for Holy Orders (Continued). 

PAGE 

§ vii. — [1.] If Postulant seeks admission to Priest's Orders what is 

required 22 

[2.] Not a graduate, to be examined by Examining Chaplains . 22 

[3.] If dispensation from Latin, etc., be desired 23 

[4.] Certificate required 23 

[5.] Bishop may dispense 23 

[6.] Standing Committee to approve . 23 



§ viii. — Standing Committee may recommend by a testimonial 
§ ix. 



,-[1. 
[2. 



23 



Bishop may then admit 24 

Bishop shall assign texts 24 



[3.] Bishop alone can dispense with knowledge of Hebrew . 25 
x. — Definition of Bishop 25 



Canon 4. — General Provisions concerning Candidates for Holy 
Orders. 



§i.- 

§ii.- 
iii. — 



i> v. 
vi. 



§ vii. 



jl.l Supervision of candidates 25 

2.] In vacant dioceses 25 

diligence in study required 25 

"1.] No transfer , 

2.] Where studies may be prosecuted 
3.] Transfer for satisfactory reasons 
4.] What is not a sufficient reason 

1.] Candidates to make quarterly reports 26 

2.] Result of failure to report 26 

Candidates not eligible to General Convention 26 

[1.] Candidates may be licensed Lay Readers 27 

[2.] Lay Readers in another Diocese 27 

[3.] Restriction 27 

[1.1 Bishop to give notice if Postulant or Candidate is rejected . 
[2.] Candidate rejected not to be ordained elsewhere 



26 
20 
26 
20 



27 
27 



Proviso 27 



Canon 5. — Of the Learning and Examinations of a Candidate 
for Deacon's Orders only. 

§ i. — Candidate to present himself for examination 28 



§ ii- — 



Bishop to assign Examiners 28 

What the examination shall cover 28 

If Candidate be from another religious body 29 

Report of Examiners 29 

Examinations may be adjourned 29 

Bishop must examine 30 



15 2 



INDEX TO THE DIGEST. 



tm i. — Of the Ministry, Doctrine, etc. 



(Continued). 



Canon 6. — Of the Learning and Examinations of a Candidate 
for Priest's Orders. Pj 



§ i- 
§ ii- 



• Candidate to present himself for examination 
-Three examinations 



§ iii. — No 


§ iv.— 


1. 




2. 


§v.- 


"1. 




'2.' 


§ vi. — 


"1. 




"2. 




[3." 




'4." 




F 5. 



§ Vll. ■ 

5 viii. • 

§ ix.- 

§*•■ 
§xi.- 



30 

30 

iubstitute for canonical examinations 30 

Bishop may invite the presenting Presbyter to' attest ... 30 

Bishop must examine 31 

If Candidate be from another religious body 31 

Written examinations 31 

Character of first examination 31 

Candidates having dispensations 31 

Second examination 31 

Third examination 32 

Course or study 32 

Examinations not to be lessened 32 

Sermons to be presented 32 

Further qualifications required 32 

Examiners to certify result to the Bishop 32 

[1.] Examinations for Priesthood may precede ordination to the 

Diaconate 33 

[2.] The first examination if satisfactory may suffice for admis- 
sion to Diaconate 33 



Canon 7. — Of Ordination to the Diaconate. 



§ i. — Age for ordination 33 

§ ii. — Candidate for Deacon's Orders only not to be ordained for one 

year 33 

§ iii. — Candidate for Priest's Orders not to be ordained Deacon for 

three years 33 

Proviso 34 

§ iv. — Recommendation from Standing Committee only 34 

§v. — Essentials to such recommendation 34 

(a) His own application 34 

(b) Certificate from the Bishop 34 

(c) Certificate from a Presbyter 35 

(d) Certificate from his Minister 35 

Certificate to be attested 35 

§ vi. — If Parish be vacant, certificate from Vestry 36 

§ vii. — If there be no Parish, certificate from a Presbyter or Laymen . 36 

§ viii. — [1.] Standing Committee may then recommend 36 

2.] Testimonial to be signed 37 

§ ix. — [1.] Bishop to require subscription to Article 7 of Constitution . 37 

To take order for ordination 37 

[2.] Standing Committee's assent essential 37 

Canon 8. — Of Beacons. 

§ i. — Deacons subject to regulation of Bishop 37 

§ ii. — No transfer of Deacons 38 

§ iii. — [1.] Bestrictions upon settlement 3S 



153 



INDEX TO THE DIGEST. 



— Op the Ministry, Doctrine, etc. {Continued). 

Canon 8. — Of Deacons (Continued). 

§ iii. — {Continued). page 

[2.] Shall act under direction 38 

[3.1 Placed under authority of Presbyter 38 

[4.] May be admitted Candidate for Priest's orders 38 



Canon 9. — General Provisions relating to Ordination to the 
Priesthood. 

§ i. — Age for ordination 39 

§ ii. — Must have been Deacon one year 39 

§ iii. — Must have been Candidate three years 39 

Exceptions 39 

§ iv. — If from another body of Christians 39 



Canon 10. — Of Ordination to the Priesthood. 



§ i. — Candidate to lay before Standing Committee 40 

(a) Certificate from Bishop 40 

(b) Certificate from two Presbyters 40 

(c) Certificate from Vestry of Parish 40 

Certificate to be attested 41 

(d) If Parish be vacant 41 

(e) If there be no Parish 41 

§ ii. — Standing Committee may recommend 42 

§ iii. — Title for Orders 42 



Canon 11. — General Provisions with Respect to the Preparation 
for Holy Orders and Admission thereto. 

§ i. — [1.] Certificates to be in prescribed form 43 

~2/ Who may not sign 43 

3.] Date required 43 

4.] Standing Committee to judge the value of substitute for 

certificate 43 

When Standing Committee to sign testimonial; and by how 

many 43 

When Vestry to sign certificate 44 

To whom application for dispensation to be made 44 

Standing Committee refusing to recommend shall give notice 

to the Bishop 44 

Testimonials and certificates essential to ordination 44 

[1.] Examining Chaplains to be appointed 45 



§ ii- — 

§ iii- — 

§iv.- 

§v.- 

§ vi. • 
§ vii. 



[2. 

-ti- 
ts 



Their Reports to be in writing 45 

Stated times of Ordination 45 

May be as Bishop shall appoint 45 



5 vm 

§ ix. — Consequences of violating or neglecting these Canons 



45 



154 



INDEX TO THE DIGEST. 



Vxtit I . — Of the Ministry, Doctrine, etc. {Continued). 
Canon 12. — Of Lay Headers. 

" PAGE 

§ i. — Lay Communicants may be licensed as Lay Readers 46 

Limitations 46 

For Service in Vacant Parish or Mission 46 

If a Rector is in Charge, his Request necessary 46 

License may be Revoked 46 

§ ii. — Restrictions 46 

§ iii. — Regulations 46 

Subject to Authority 46 

Of Bishop and Minister 47 

Directions and Restrictions . 47 

As to Sermons 47 

As to Dress 47 

As to Occasion 47 

Canon 13. — Of Deaconesses. 

§ i. — Who may be Appointed 47 

§ ii. — Duties 47 

§ iii. — Qualifications 47 

Testimonial 48 

§ iv. — Authority Required for Work 48 

§ v. — Must always be under Oversight 48 

§ vi. — May resign Office 48 

§ vii. — May be Suspended 4S 

§ viii. — Set apart by a Religious Service 49 

Canon 14. — Of Ministers Ordained in Foreign Countries by 
Bishops in Communion with this Church. 

§ i. — Certificate Requisite before Officiating 49 

Letter Dimissory 50 

Subscription, and One Year's Residence 50 

§ ii. — Foreign Deacons 50 

Canon 15. — Of the Admission of Ministers ordained by Bisho2^s 
not in Communion with this Church. 

Written Certificate from Two Presbyters to be produced ... 51 

Declaration in Article 7 to be signed 51 

Canon 16. — Of Ministers officiating in a Foreign Language. 

With the approbation of the Bishop such Ministers may settle 

without a Tear's Residence 51 

Canon 17. — Of Persons not Ministers in this Church officiating 
in any Congregation thereof. 

Evidence of being a Minister 52 

155 



INDEX TO THE DIGEST. 



18 



txttt I. 

Canon 
§i. 



§ii- 
§ iii- 

§ iv. 



§v.- 
§ vi.— 

§ vii. — 



Of the Ministry, Doctrine, etc. (Continued). 



General Regulations of Ministers and their Duties. 

PAGE 

— [1.] Of Election and Institution 52 

Certificate of Election 53 

Certificate to be Transmitted for Record 53 

Concerning Institution 53 

— Certificate to Minister removing from one Diocese to another . 53 

1.] Parochial Instruction 54 

2. J Alms and Contributions 54 

— Duty on Episcopal Visitations 54 

1.] One Month's Notice to be given 54 

List of Names of Persons Confirmed 55 

Information to be given of the State of the Congregation . 55 

Parochial Reports 55 

Parish Register to be kept 55 

Register of Baptisms 55 

List of Families 56 

Officiating of Ministers within the Cures of others .... 56 

Parish Boundaries not Otherwise Defined 56 

Neglect of Minister to Officiate 57 

Rights of Property Undisturbed 57 

Of Clerical Residence and Removal 58 

Form of Letter Dimissory 58 

[2.] When such Letter shall affect Canonical Residence ... 58 

When void 58 

[3.] When the Bishop shall receive a Letter Dimissory ... 58 

When he may Decline to Receive a Letter Dimissory ... 59 

[4.] When Letters Dimissory are Required 59 

Exceptions 59 

Unless transferred, License Required 59 

Canon 19. — Of Bishops. 

§ i. — [1.] Election of Bishops 59 

Six Presbyters and Six Parishes 60 

Two or more Dioceses Uniting 60 

[2.1 What is a Settlement 60 

§ ii. — [l.j Certificates to be produced by the Bishop-Elect 61 

Testimony from Diocesan Convention 61 

Testimony from House of Deputies 62 

[2.1 Notification of Consent, and Order for Consecration ... 62 

§ iii. — [l.| Consecration during Recess 62 

Consent of Standing Committees 62 

Consent of Bishops 63 

[2.] Evidence of such Consent 63 

No Consecration within Three Months of General Conven- 
tion 63 

§ iv. — Canonical Age for Consecration 63 

§ v. —Bishop Coadjutor 63 

Bishop shall state Duties he assigns 64 



No Suffragan Bishop 

§ vi. — Domestic Missionary Bishops 

[1.1 Mode and Evidence of Election . . 
[2. ] Exercise of Episcopal Functions . . 

Extent of Jurisdiction 

156 [3.] Death, Resignation, or other Vacancy 



64 



65 
65 
65 



INDEX TO THE DIGEST. 



txtU I . — Of the Ministry, Doctrine, etc. (Continued). 



Canon 19. — Of Bishops (Continued). 



§ vi. — (Continued). page 

[4.] Jurisdiction over Clergy 65 

Power to appoint a Standing Committee 65 

E5.1 The Constitution and Canons of the Jurisdiction .... 66 
6.] Presentment may be made by Clerical Members of the 

Standing Committee 66 

[7. J Entitled to a Seat in the House of Bishops 66 

Eligible as a Diocesan 66 

Power upon the Organization of a Diocese 66 

[8.] Must Report to General Convention and to the Board of 

Missions 66 

§ vii. — Foreign Missionary Bishops 67 

[1.] Mode and Evidence of Election .67 

[2.] Limitation of Jurisdiction 67 

Shall have a Seat in the House of Bishops 67 

Restriction upon Eligibility as a Diocesan 67 

[3.1 Mode of Presenting and Trying such Bishops 68 

[4.] Power to Ordain Deacons or Presbyters 68 

Testimonials Necessary in such Case 68 

Proviso 68 

5.] Power of Dispensation 69 

6. ' Jurisdiction over Resident Missionaries or Clergymen . . 69 

7. Shall appoint a Standing Committee 70 

'8.1 Trial of Ministers 70 

9.] Constitution of the Court 70 

[10.] The Sentence 71 

[11.] Report must be made to General Convention and Board of 

Missions 71 

§ viii. — Election of a Missionary Bishop as a Diocesan 71 

[1.] Concurrence of General Convention .71 

[2.] Election during Recess 72 

Consent of Bishops and Standing Committees 72 

Notice of Election to be given 72 

§ ix. — Episcopal Charges and Pastoral Letters 72 

§ x. — Episcopal Visitations 73 

[1.] Visitation at least once in Three Tears 73 

Declining to Visit 73 

Council of Conciliation 73 

"2.1 Clergy to supply Bishop's Parish when he is a Rector . . 74 

*3.1 Expenses of Visitation to be defrayed by the Diocese . . 74 

'4.] Register of Episcopal Acts 74 

§ xi. — Of Episcopal Residence 74 

§ xii. — Of Bishops temporarily absent from their Dioceses 74 

§ xiii. — Forms of Prayer or Thanksgiving for extraordinary Occasions . 75 

§ xiv. — Performance of Episcopal Duties in Vacant Dioceses, etc. . . 75 

[1.] Upon Invitation of the Convention or Standing Committee, 75 

Invitation Temporary and Revocable 75 

[2.] Full Charge of another Bishop, by Act of the Convention . 75 

[3.] Only one such Bishop at a Time 76 



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INDEX TO THE DIGEST. 



zm i . — Op the Ministry, Doctrine, etc. (Continued). 
Canon 19. — Of Bishops (Continued). 

PAGE 

§ xv. — Episcopal Resignations 76 

[1.] Desire to Resign to be made known to the House of Bishops, 76 

Investigation may be made 76 

[2.] House of Bishops may accept or refuse the Resignation . . 76 

[3.] Resignation during Recess 77 

The Bishops to meet 77 

Mode in which they are to Act 77 

[4.] Resigned Bishop not eligible to a Diocese 78 

Bishops Resigning on account of Age to retain Rights and 

Precedences 78 

[5.] Bishops without Charge subject to General Convention . . 78 

[6.] Resignation of Suspended Bishop 78 

§ xvi. — Vacancy in Missionary Jurisdiction during the Recess .... 79 

[1.] House of Bishops to Meet and Elect 79 

Standing Committees and Bishops to Consent 80 

[2.1 Form of the Consent of Standing Committees 80 

[3.] Rights of Missionary Bishops thus Consecrated 80 



Canon 20. — Of the Mode of Securing an Accurate View of the 
State of the Church. 

§ i. — Parochial Reports to be made 80 

Clergymen not Settled shall Report 81 

§ ii. — The Bishop's Address at Convention 81 

§ iii. — Committee on the State of the Church 82 

Pastoral Letter from the House of Bishops 82 

To be read to every Congregation 82 

§ iv. — Duty of Diocesan Secretaries to forward Documents 82 

§ v. — Diocesan Secretary to prepare a Tabular View or Parochial and 

Diocesan Statistics 82 

§vi. — Church Schools, Colleges, Hospitals, and Asylums to Report 

Annually 83 

To be Included in Triennial Tabular View 83 



Canon 21. — Of Publishing Authorized Editions of the Stand- 
ard Bible 

Canon 22. — Of Publishing Editions of the Book of Common 
Prayer. 



§ i. — What is the Standard Prayer Book 83 

§ ii. — All copies to conform to the Standard 84 

§ iii. — How corrections are to be made 84 

§ iv. — Copies of the Standard Book to be sent to the Dioceses ... 84 

§ v. — Certificate of Custodian Required 85 

§ vi. — Custodian to be Appointed 85 

Unauthorized Editions ■ 85 

§ vii. — Canon takes effect immediately 85 



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I. — Of the Ministry, Doctrine, etc. {Continued). 

PAGE 

Canon 23. — Of the Due Celebration of Sundays 85 

Canon 24. — Of the Use of the Book of Common Prayer. 

§ i. — Use of the Book of Common Prayer Required on all Occasions 

of Public Worship 85 

§ ii. — Introduction of Ceremonies or Practices not ordained or 

Authorized not Allowed 86 

[1.] Specifications of such Practices as Symbolize Erroneous or 

Doubtful Doctrines 86 

[2.] Offender to be Admonished and Tried 86 

[3.] Provisions as to Mode of Trial 87 

Canon 25. — Of Church Music. 

§ i. — Hymns and Anthems which may be Sung 87 

§ ii. — The Minister to give Order concerning Tunes 87 

Canon 26. — Of the Consecration of Churches. 

§ i. — Building and Grounds to be paid for before Consecration ... 88 
§ ii. — Bishop's Consent Necessary to the Incumbrance or Alienation of 

a Consecrated Church 88 

§ iii — Consent Necessary in other Specified Instances 89 



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II. — Of Discipline. 
Canon 1. — Of Amenability and Citations. 

PAGE 

§ i. — To whom Ministers are Amenable 90 

§ ii. — Mode of Serving Citations 90 

§ iii. — Of Notices in General 90 

§ iv. — Duty to give Evidence 91 

§ v. — Of Cases of Conviction in Courts of Eecord 91 

Canon 2. — Of Offences for which Ministers may be Tried and 
Punished. 

§ i. — Enumeration of Punishable Offences 91 

§ ii. — Proceedings on Public Rumor 92 

Three Kinds of Punishment 92 

Canon 3. — Of a Clergyman in one Diocese Chargeable with 
Misdemeanor in another. 

§ i. — Notice to Authority of Offender's Diocese 93 

Proceedings on a Neglect to Act 93 

§ ii. — The Bishop may Admonish and Forbid Officiating 93 

Notice of Prohibition to be Given 94 

Prohibition to Continue until the Bishop be satisfied, or the 

Clergyman Acquitted on Trial 94 

§ iii. — The Same Course to be Pursued with Clergymen Ordained in 

Foreign Countries 94 

Notice of Prohibition to be Given 94 



Canon 4. — Of Differences between Ministers and their Congre- 
gations, and of the Dissolution of a Pastoral 
Connection. 

§ i. — Resignation or Removal of a Rector 94 

§ ii. — Separation and Dissolution of Pastoral Connection 95 

Differences, how to be Settled 95 

Penalties for Refusal to Comply with Arbitration 95 

§ iii. — Record to be made of a Regular Dissolution 96 

Dissolutions not Regular to be laid before the Convention . . 96 

§ iv. — This Canon not Obligatory in Certain Dioceses 96 

Canon 5. — Of Renunciation of the Ministry. 

§ i. — Renunciation when no Ecclesiastical Proceeding is pending . . 96 

Renunciation to be Recorded 97 

The Bishop to Depose, in Presence of Clergymen 97 

Notice of Deposition 97 

§ ii. — The Bishop may Suspend Action for Six Months 97 

§ iii. — Renunciation under Liability to Presentment ....... 97 

The Trial may Proceed 98 

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AtU II. — Of Discipline (Continued). 

Canon 6. — Of the Abandonment of the Communion of this 

Church by a Presbyter or Deacon. page 

§ i. — Abandonment without Renunciation 98 

To be Certified by the Standing Committee 9g 

Notice to be given to the Minister Concerned 98 

§ ii. — Deposition after Six Months 99 

Proviso, of Retraction 99 

Canon 7. — Of a Clergyman Absenting himself from his 
Diocese. 

Absence for Five Years, without Satisfactory Reason, Ground 

of Suspension 99 

How long the Suspension shall Endure 99 

Notice of Suspension to be given to every Diocese 99 

Canon 8. — Of the Abandonment of the Communion of the 
Church by a Bishop. 

Deposition 101 

Proceedings may be Suspended on Retraction 101 

Canon 9. — Of the Trial of a Bishop. 

§ i. — Enumeration of Offences for which a Bishop may be tried . . 101 

§ ii. — Commencement of Proceedings 101 

[1.] Charges to be made in Writing 101 

By whom Charges must be Signed 102 

[2.] A Bishop may demand a Trial, when there are Rumors 

against him 102 

On the Advice and Consent of any two Bishops whom he 

may select 102 

[3.] Accusers may choose a Lay Advocate and Agent .... 102 

Reasonable Certainty of Time, Place, and Circumstance . 103 

§ iii. — Charges shall be delivered to the Presiding Bishop .... 103 

§ iv. — A Board of Inquiry 103 

[1.] How the Board shall be constituted 103 

[2.] Notice to the Members of the Board 104 

Place of Meeting of the Board 104 

Copy of Charges to be sent 104 

[3.] Organization of the Board 104 

Church Advocate to be appointed 104 

Duty of Church Advocate 104 

Sittings of the Board to be Private 104 

[4.] Duty of the Board of Inquiry 104 

Rules of Evidence shall be those of the State in which the 

Trial is had 105 

A Majority of the Board present may make Presentment 105 

[5.] Copies of Presentment to be sent 105 

[6.] Certificate of Refusal to Present 105 

Such Certificate a Bar to future Presentment 105 

Except on Affidavit of New Testimony 105 

[7.] Offences more than Five Tears old not Presentable . . . 106 

Except on Conviction in a State Court 106 

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II. — Op Discipline {Continued). 
Canon 9. — Of the Trial of a Bishop (Continued). 

PAGE 

§ v. — Course of Action upon Presentment 106 

[1.] Notice to the Accused, and to the Church Advocate, to 

attend at the Selection of the Court 106 

[2.] Formation of the Court 106 

Eleven reduced to Seven by striking off alternately . . . 107 

[3.] Notice to Members of the Court to attend 107 

Appointment of Time and Place 107 

Certified Copies of Presentment 10S 

[4.] Summons of the Accused 10S 

Any Bishop has Power to Summon Witnesses 108 

§ vi. — Course of Proceeding on the Trial 108 

[1.] Election of President and Clerk 10S 

Reading the Presentment 109 

[2.] Calling on the Accused to Plead 109 

Power to Adjourn 109 

Rights of the Accused 109 

[3.] Non-appearance of the Accused 109 

Contumacy 109 

Suspension or Degradation after Three Months' Contumacy, 109 

[4.] The Common Law the Rule of Proceeding 109 

Declaration to be Signed by Witnesses before Testifying . 110 

Commission to take Testimony 110 

Appointment of Commissary to take Depositions .... 110 

Cross-examination in such Cases 110 

On what Conditions Depositions to be read Ill 

Civil Authority given to Ecclesiastical Courts Ill 

[5.] Summoner to serve Notices and Papers Ill 

Certificate of Service Ill 

Mode of Service Ill 

[6.] The Accused may have Counsel Ill 

Counsel on either Side to be Communicants 112 

[7.] Court to express an Opinion on each Charge and Specifica- 
tion 112 | 

[8.] The Decision to be reduced to Writing, and Signed . . . 112 

[9.] The Accused to be heard before Sentence 112 

The Court may grant a new Trial 113 ! 

[10.] Pronouncing Sentence 113 

Sentence to be Communicated to every Clergyman in every 

Diocese 113 ■ 

[11.] Record of Proceedings and Evidence 113 

Exceptions and Papers filed to be part, of the Record . . 114 

[12.] Record to be kept by the Clerk 114 

Attested by Signatures of President and Clerk .... 114 

Deposited with Registrar of General Convention .... 114 

Open to Inspection 114 

[13.] Laiy Advisers may be appointed 114 

Their Office 114 

§ vii. — Proceedings on Charge of Erroneous Doctrine 114 

[1.] Presentment to be made by any one Bishop 115 

The Presenter shall appoint a Church Advocate .... 115 



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II. — Of Discipline (Continued*). 
Canon 9. — Of the Trial of a Bishop (Continued). 
§ vii. — {Continued). 

PAGE 

[2.] How the Presentment shall be Signed, Addressed, and 

Delivered 115 

The Court to be composed of all the Bishops except Pre- 
senter and Accused 115 

Two-thirds Vote Necessary to Convict 115 

§ viii. — [1.] Proceedings against a Missionary Bishop 115 

[2.] Proceedings against a Bishop without Jurisdiction . . . 116 

Canon 10. — Of Sentences. 

§ i. — Suspension must be limited by Specific Terms or Time . . . 116 

§ ii. — Deposition 116 

[1.] Deposition not Partial, but Total 116 

Notice of Deposition to be given, and to whom .... 116 

[2.] Deposition, Displacing, etc., same as Degradation . . . 116 

Canon 11. — Of the Remission or Modification of Judicial Sen- 
tences. 

§ i. — The Bishops may altogether Remit or Modify 116 

Such Action to take place only at General Convention or Meet- 
ing Specially Convened 117 

Majority of whole number of Bishops must Assent .... 117 
§ ii. — A Bishop may Remit a Sentence of Deposition, Pronounced on 

him upon a Presbyter or Deacon 1 17 

But only upon certain conditions 117 

Canon 12. — Regulations Respecting the Laity. 

§ i. — Communicant Removing shall procure a Certificate of good 

Standing US 

Rector of Parish not required to receive a Communicant with- 
out such Certificate 118 

§ ii. — [1.] Scandalous Persons shall be Repelled from the Holy Com- 
munion U9 

[2.] The Minister Repelling shall Inform the Ordinary ... 119 
Inquiry to be made by the Bishop, on Complaint in 

Writing 119 

Case of the Absence of Diocesan Canon 119 

[3.] Case of great Heinousness 119 

Deprivation of all Privileges of Church Membership . . 119 

Canon 13. — Of Marriage and Divorce. 

§ i. — Marriage except as God's Word doth allow, not Lawful . . . 120 
§ ii. — No Minister shall unite in Marriage those Divorced save for the 

Cause of Adultery 120 

§ iii. — The Sacraments to be withheld from Persons married other- 
wise than as God's Word doth allow 120 

Except to a Penitent Person in Imminent Danger of Death . 120 
§ iv. — Questions touching the Facts of any Case to be referred to the 

Bishop 121 

§ v. — The Penalties under this Canon limited 121 

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&\t& III.— Op the Organized Bodies and Officers of 
the Church. 



Canon 1. — Of the General Convention. 

§ i. — Special Meetings of General Convention 



[1.] To be Called by the Presiding Bishop 

On Written Consent of a Majority of the Bishops 



2.] Place of Meeting 

3.] Who shall be Deputies at the Special Meeting 

4.] Kules and Orders 

§ ii. — Registrar of General Convention 

[1.] To be a Presbyter 

How Nominated and Elected 

Shall have Charge of all Papers and Documents belonging 

to either House of General Convention 

2.] Duties of Registrar 

3.] Book of Record of the Consecrations of Bishops . . . . 

4. J Expenses of Registrar to be provided for 

§ iii. — When Particular Notice shall be given to the Ecclesiastical 

Authority of every Diocese 

§ iv. — Treasurer of General Convention 

His Duties 

How a Vacancy shall be filled 

§ v. — How the Expenses of General Convention shall be met . . . 
Diocesan Ratio of Payment 



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124 

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124 
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Canon 2. — Of Standing Committees. 

§ i. — Standing Committee in every Diocese 125 

Appointed by Diocesan Convention 125 

Elect their own President and Secretary 125 

The President to Summon Special Meetings 126 

§ ii. — To act as the Bishop's Council of Advice 126 

§ iii. — The Ecclesiastical Authority when there is no Bishop . . . 126 



Canon 3. — Of Congregations and Parishes. 

§ i. — Unions of Congregations in Different Dioceses, Irregular and 



Void 126 

No Clergyman to Sit in Two Diocesan Conventions .... 126 

§ ii. — Parish Boundaries and New Parishes 127 

"1.1 Left to the Diocesan Conventions 127 

2.] Where Power is Vested until Diocesan Conventions Act . 127 

'3.] Vested Rights Preserved 127 

§ iii. — Congregations in Foreign Lands 127 

1.] Lawful to Organize 127 

2.] Mode of Procedure at Organization 127 

3.] Must recognize Constitution, etc 128 

'4.] Must Declare its Desire for Reception 128 



5.] Certificate of Desire to be Received under Direction of the 

General Convention, and Filed by the Registrar . . . 128 

[6.] Exercise of Jurisdiction may be Assigned by Presiding 

Bishop 129 

[7.] Standing Committees of Foreign Churches, how Consti- 
tuted 129 

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the Organized Bodies, etc. {Continued). 

Canon 3. — Of Congregations and Parishes (Continued). 
§ iii. — ( Continued). 

PAGE 



[8.] Inquiry to be Instituted and Commission Appointed in 

case of Charges against Clergyman in charge . . . 130 
[9.] Parochial Cure of Minister of a Church in a Foreign Land, 131 
[10.] Difference between Minister and Congregation to be ad- 
justed by Bishop and Standing Committee .... 131 
[11.] Clergymen of such Churches to be nominated by the 

Vestry thereof, and approved by the Bishop in Charge, 131 

Canon 4. — Of the Organization of Ney) Dioceses. 

§ i. — Who shall call the Primary Convention 132 

Where shall be the Place of Meeting 132 

§ ii. — Who shall call it, if there be no Bishop 132 

When the Call shall be Made 133 

§ iii. — Case of the Division of the Diocese 133 

Which Part shall be the New Diocese 133 

§ iv. — Admission into Union with General Convention 133 

Naming of such New Diocese 133 

Canon 5. — Of the Requisites of a Quorum. 

A Majority is a Quorum 133 

Majority of a Quorum Competent to Act 133 

Canon 6. — Authorizing the formation of a Federate Conven- 
tion or Council, of the Dioceses within any State. 
The Dioceses within any State may form a Federate Conven- 
tion or Council 134 

With the Approval of the General Convention 134 

Legislative Action may be Secured 134 



Canon 7. — Of the Constitution of the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, in the United States of America. 

§ i. — Amendment of the Constitution of said Society 134 

Art. I. The name of the Society 135 

Art. II. The Society composed of all Members of this Church . 135 

Art. III. The General Convention to constitute a Board of Missions, 135 

The Board to convene on the third day of the Session . 135 

Art. IV. Missionary Council 135 

When to meet 135 

With what Powers 136 

Vacancies filled 136 

Board of Managers 136 

With what Powers 136 

Vacancies filled 136 

Ex-officio Members 136 

Quorum 137 

Beports 137 

Committee to prepare Order ^1 Work 137 

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QxtU III. — Of the Organized Bodies, etc. (Continued). 

Canon 7. — Of the Constitution of the Domestic and Foreign 
Missionary Society, etc. (Continued). 

§ i. — {Continued). page 

Art. V. Committees may be formed 137 

Art. VI. Further Powers 138 

Appropriations, etc 138 

Council of Advice tor Foreign Missions 138 

Art. VII. Salary of Missionary Bishop 138 

Relation of Missionary Bishop may be Terminated . . 139 

Art. VIII. Who msiy be appointed Missionaries 139 

Art. IX. Auxiliary Associations 139 

Public Missionary Meetings to be Held 139 

Art. X. When a roll call shall be made 139 

Art. XI. How this Constitution may he Amended 139 

§ ii. — Canons inconsistent with this Canon repealed 140 

§ iii. — This Canon to take effect immediately 140 

Canon 8. — Of General Clergy Relief. 

§ i. — [1.] Election of Trustees 140 

Term of Office 140 

[2.] Enlargement of Board of Trustees 140 



§ ii 

[2 



Who may be Beneficiaries 141 

Applications 141 

§ iii. — Resources 141 

§ iv. — Report 141 

§ v. — Designation of Contributions 141 

§ vi. — Affiliated Societies 141 

Canon 9. — Of the Distribution of the Book of Common 
Prayer. 

§ i. — Trustees Appointed 142 

§ ii. —Object of Society 142 

§ iii. — Annual Meeting 142 

Report 142 

§ iv. — Auxiliaries 142 



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IV. — Miscellaneous Provisions. 
Canon 1. — Of repealed Canons. 

PAGE 

Kepeal of Repeal, no Re-enactment 143 

Canon 2. — Of the Enactment, Amendment, and Repeal of 
New Canons. 

§ i. — Form of Altering Canons 143 

§ ii. — Who are to Certify Changes in Canons 144 

Canon 3. — Of the Time of these Canons Taking Effect. 

January 1, 1860 144 

General Repeal of all other Canons 144 

Canon 4. — Of the Time when New Canons shall take Effect. 

The First Day of January after the Adjournment of the General 

Convention at which they are made 144 



APPENDIX. 

Joint Resolution of the Two Houses of General Convention. 

The Clergy not to bear Arms 146 

But may be Chaplains, Professors, Instructors 146 

Order of the Organization of the Bouse of Deputies and Prescrib- 
ing the Duties of the Secretary 146 

Standing Order of Delegates from Missionary Jurisdictions ... 149 

Standing Resolution of the Expenses of the Presiding Bishop . 149 

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